Sentence examples for pernicious tendency from inspiring English sources

A well-documented and particularly pernicious tendency of human decision-makers is to interpret evidence in a way that supports their pre-existing conclusions (pdf).

The judge's order for the city to provide eviction notices to Legal Aid was part of a "pernicious tendency" to impose "obligations beyond those that the city agreed to undertake," Mr. Crane said.

Masked balls were banned in taverns and boarding houses because the council determined they were "of immoral and pernicious tendency, subversive of all just and honourable discrimination of character, and calculated to encourage the profligate, seduce the youth of both sexes and promote licentiousness & disorder".

It was a monthly periodical "designed to counteract the pernicious tendency of immoral books &c. which have circulated of late years among the inferior classes of people," and usually included one engraved plate.

He may be right about the pernicious tendencies of snark to debase our culture.

We regard this as a pernicious trend.

Radicals saw this period, which included the 1794 Treason Trials, as "the institution of a system of TERROR, almost as hideous in its features, almost as gigantic in its stature, and infinitely more pernicious in its tendency, than France ever knew".

What ulterior agenda could explain Mansour's courting Schmidt's friendship so avidly?While Schmidt's suspicions of his unctuous neighbour could spring from those pernicious anti-Semitic tendencies, readers may be mistrustful of Mansour because Schmidt himself is such an unalluring social quarry.

It is the Beast's pervasive and pernicious nature, as well as its tendency to destroy those who are innocent, that Revelation seeks to reveal and ultimately resist.

It is patriarchy's pervasive and pernicious nature, as well as its tendency to destroy the innocent, that #YesAllWomen seeks to reveal and ultimately resist.

"What is important is that having rejected stereotypical thinking about consent and rape, we don't adopt equally pernicious assumptions about men and their tendency to rape and/or the inherent believability of complainants".