Sentence examples for pernicious that from inspiring English sources

Payday loans — advances that are to be repaid on payday — are so burdensome and so pernicious that in 2006 Congress effectively banned them for military families.

The book is so pernicious that it drives an elderly man to hang himself from a noose that doesn't look capable of supporting a pair of socks.

Yet, according to Judge Walker, the conflict was so obvious and so pernicious that Worth could not possibly have adequately represented Schwarz, even though Schwarz had known about the conflict.

Indeed, that's precisely what makes his behavior so pernicious: that his administration exploits secrecy laws to punish those who expose high-level wrongdoing while leaking at will for political gain.

"391 Percent Payday Loan" (editorial, April 13) argues that payday loans "are so burdensome and so pernicious" that even a bill to restrict them in more than 20 states does not go far enough in protecting consumers.

A bit of digging finds that Domplayer is dry rubbed in viruses and encased in a lump of spyware so pernicious that it makes herpes look like a cold sore.

But the law, SB1070, is far more pernicious than that.

It is something much uglier and pernicious than that.

Burleigh believes that the pernicious ideologies that shaped our age — Communism and fascism above all — are best understood as political religions.

There is a persistent and pernicious myth that maintains that "Jewish money" is the determinant factor shaping all aspects of U.S. Middle East policy.

I believe that one of the pernicious lies that has been told to your generation is that one can have it all.