Sentence examples for pernicious practices from inspiring English sources

As with many pernicious practices, child marriage would not exist without tacit support and approval from the country's leadership.

"Those Crazy Indemnity Forms We All Sign," by Daniel Akst (Sunday Review, Dec. 9), doesn't mention one of the most pernicious practices that businesses build into their consumer contracts: denying customers their legal rights.

After shining a light on the corrupt injustice and pernicious practices of the multinational puppet-masters responsible for creating and sustaining the cancerous core of Nigerian politics and daring to speak out against it, he would simply vanish.

It's when Obama makes blanket statements like "We do not practice torture," while simultaneously upholding pernicious practices such as the state secrets act that I get queasy.

The law has ended the insurance industry's most pernicious practices, fostered improvements in the way doctors and hospitals deliver care and brought the number of Americans without coverage to a historic low.

Allegedly one of Chase's more pernicious practices was "robosigning," the mass production and signing of credit-related affidavits without any semblance of verification, an illegal shortcut similar to the one that plagued the mortgage market and one of the targets of a new report from the inspector general of the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Seriously, this pernicious practice is, we fear, on the increase.

The bodies of community elders have been called "undemocratic" by the government, and the report labels them a "pernicious practice".

Paying women less than their male counterparts for a job of equal value has been illegal since the 1970s but that hasn't deterred the pernicious practice.

This would legalize a pernicious practice that has recently been used against the artist Ai Weiwei, the lawyer Gao Zhisheng and the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo.

This is most obvious in the pernicious practice of "policy conditionality", where countries have to do what donors say to get their money.