Sentence examples for pernicious system from inspiring English sources

Hardworking, optimistic and generous, impoverished but wanting to get on, he was an ordinary man ground down by a pernicious system.

Going through the trash is simply the first step in an increasingly pernicious system that targets the innocent as well as the guilty.

He had abandoned his homeland because of a pernicious system, but now that the system had been overthrown he would return.

They resemble, in fact, the pernicious system of "truck" abolished in Britain in the 19th century, in which factory owners paid their workers in tokens, redeemable only for an overpriced selection of goods on sale at a company shop.

My sincere hope is that the pernicious system of corporate influence in Washington and in the state capitols that permitted this debacle to occur will continue to be exposed so that it can be dismantled.

The Great Firewall is a pernicious system that will block or throttle various websites depending on political content.

We can spread the word through Facebook but that site's pernicious systems keeps it from spreading outside of your immediate zone of friends.

The failure to draw the distinction between appearances and things in themselves is the hallmark of all those pernicious systems of thought that stand under the title of "transcendental realism".

It matters only as a tangible symbol of this subtle, pernicious, destructive system we live with and, by and large, accept.

Now, however, the competition of the pernicious rating system has become so intense, and so important financially, that owners have been forced to be more selective about what goes into the chateau's grand vin.

As the pernicious ratings system has become increasingly omnipotent, and the competition for those all-important numbers has become increasingly intense, owners have been forced to be more selective when deciding which wines go into their Grand Vin, and which should be relegated to the Second Labels.