Sentence examples similar to pernicious schemes from inspiring English sources
Peru's low-paid police are allowed to double as private security guards under a pernicious scheme in which they have a day on and then a day off; it would be better to pay more for a full-time force that doesn't regard public service as an interlude in between making money.
Jefferson, who believed that a Congress capable of passing the Alien and Sedition Acts was likely to attempt to push through an act "declaring that the President shall continue in office during life," had little difficulty crediting stories of the most pernicious Federalist schemes.
As Surjit Bhalla of Oxus Fund Management in Delhi has tirelessly pointed out, they have become a national pyramid scheme with a pernicious effect.Many economists argue, however, that if the deficit is to be tackled, the best hope lies on the revenue side.
"Any censorship scheme approved by the federal government is pernicious," Ms. Beeson said, "but one in which the censor has a black bag over his head is even worse".
It may well be the first change to the taxi card scheme in 15 years but it is still pernicious.
For example, the original proposals for changes to the BBC pension scheme amounted to what one expert claimed was a "pernicious" retrospective reduction to members' existing pension rights.
You have pernicious anemia.
