Sentence examples similar to pernicious properties from inspiring English sources

"An important first step would be to freeze the uplift until 2017 and then lower the UBR [tax rate] to rebalance rates away from property intensive industries who suffer most under this pernicious tax".

Her hairdresser (a traditional harbinger of bursting bubbles) was speculating in property, teaming up with friends to buy and "flip" condos.When property prices began to drop, the effects on the area were particularly pernicious.

Trawling through J.K. Rowling's quaintly constructed Web site where the billionaire author lays rumors to rest, chooses a "Wizard Of The Month" and muses on various morsels of Potterania, you swiftly realize there's only one force that's darker than the pernicious diabolist Lord Voldemort in Rowling's world, and that's unauthorized use of her intellectual property.

DEPENDING on your point of view, members of the barberry (Berberis) clan are valuable ornamental plants, invasive botanical thugs, a boon to wildlife, a great means of enclosing property, a low-maintenance method of erosion control, or the alternate hosts of a pernicious crop disease.

"Pernicious quicksand!

Domestic abuse is pernicious.

That inertia is pernicious.

"It became pernicious".

The symptoms are pernicious.

Reprehensible! Foul! Pernicious! Unsubstantiated!

This is pernicious nonsense.