Sentence examples for pernicious role from inspiring English sources

Simple carbohydrates appear to play a much more pernicious role.

First, state-level politics can play a pernicious role.

The "religious right" has long played a pernicious role in US politics.

One element has been missing, and that is the west's relationship with Middle Eastern dictatorships that have played a pernicious role in the rise of Islamist fundamentalist terrorism.

She recalled the moving stories Justice Marshall would tell to support his view that racism played a pernicious role in the administration of capital punishment.

In more than a dozen books, Elizabeth Drew has written seriously and usefully about the American political process, especially about the pernicious role of big money in elections.

She was such a pernicious character.

But the senior State Department official, who described Iran's role as "pernicious," asserted that its participation was not needed.

A smokescreen still covers the African role in this pernicious trade.

The same communications technologies that have played a varying and complex role in undermining pernicious dictatorships from Latin America to the Middle East and beyond will gradually undermine the controls international development organisations have in place of how the developing world is presented.

Inflammation plays a central pathogenic role in the pernicious metabolic and end-organ sequelae of obesity.