Sentence examples for pernicious turn from inspiring English sources

Instead, Chief Justice John Roberts offered a misguided tautology, and a pernicious turn on the famous words of Martin Luther King, Jr. "The way to stop discriminating on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race," he held, in striking down the integration measures.

Unrest has been growing for months as universities have come under more pressure to prove that their students are legitimate, according to the signatories, who say matters took a "pernicious new turn" in summer 2012 when London Metropolitan University briefly lost its trusted sponsor status – a requirement for all institutions wishing to recruit overseas students.

Instead, they reproduced a carefully tended official narrative with either celebratory accounts of empire, or equally pernicious, by turning their collective heads away from the violence that underwrote Britain's imperial past and towards more benign lines of inquiry.

He argued that any attempt to associate WikiLeaks with Guccifer 2.0 was pernicious spin trying to turn a coincidence into a conspiracy.

It's a nifty and pernicious argument that turns coal advocates into poverty campaigners and environmentalists into the bad guys.

The use of prescription antacids that reduce the stomach acid can lead to vitamin B12 deficiency which can in turn cause pernicious anemia.

But if racial subjugation is also an invention — the most powerful and pernicious American tool for turning human beings into things — the fantasy is race itself: people of color are simply people, and, however feverishly racist minds might work to give their fantasy an objective basis, there is no basis in genetic code.

If he's unable to buy loyalty through patronage, Mr. Putin could turn to more pernicious methods like bullying neighbors and fanning the flames of nationalism.

The "autonomy of the political" can turn into a pernicious theory if, overestimating the institution and the efficacy of state power, it denies the material origin and legitimacy of the foundation of the political.

And since the battle of the Republican Right -- sorry, that's redundant, of the Republican Party -- against health care, climate change legislation and financial regulation all turn on a pernicious assault on the very idea of public goods and the public interest, health care is effectively being saved by deep-sixing the principle that justifies it and a host of other vital democratic programs.

At the United Nations, the United States ambassador, John R. Bolton, labeled the comments "pernicious and unacceptable," but he turned aside questions about whether it would make sense to try to expel Iran from the United Nations itself, as Ariel Sharon, Israel's prime minister, suggested.