Sentence examples for pernicious trade from inspiring English sources

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

The Chinese, uniquely, preferred to smoke their opium and had done so even before the British began their pernicious trade.

"The Shadow Cabinet is a strong combination of change and continuity that will now come together to hold this government to account, starting today with this pernicious Trade Union Bill".

It would also help to rein in this pernicious trade, one that contributes disproportionately to the destruction of our natural world while harming good governance in developing countries and supporting criminal activity and terrorism.

The first concerted attempt to get to grips with this pernicious trade opens today in New York where experts, police officers, analysts and diplomats gather for a two-week conference called by the United Nations secretary general Kofi Annan.

"This is not the end of the efforts to deal with what is the very, very, very, very pernicious trade of people smuggling, which trades on people's lives and gives people the expectation that in return for very significant sums of money they can be brought to Australia for passage," Chris Bowen, the immigration minister, told the lower house.

He says the US will help Ukraine against pernicious Russian trade practices, whether it's cutting the energy supply or "banning the best chocolates made in Ukraine".

Others attacked the allegedly pernicious influence of high-frequency trading algorithms that comb news and execute trades in nanoseconds.

Nowhere is this more profound and pernicious than in the area of trade policy, where the threat of protectionism is exceedingly ripe.

The defense memorandum portrays insider trading as a less pernicious offense than other types of securities fraud, in which individual investors can be identified as particular victims, because no one individual can be shown to have suffered identifiable losses.

Yet since then, ever more examples show how so-called trade remedies are proliferating, with pernicious effects.