ANTI-DUMPING tariffs are among the most pernicious weapons in the protectionists' arsenal.
On Friday, 111 nations, including major NATO allies, adopted a treaty that sets an eight-year deadline to eliminate stockpiles of cluster arms — pernicious weapons that scatter thousands of small bombs across a wide area, where they pose a long-term deadly threat to innocents.
The judge described their actions as "medieval barbarism" and acid as a "pernicious and evil" weapon.
By creating tensions between anti-WMD and sovereignty norms, chemical weapons are especially pernicious at opening the door to R2P arguments that weaken the fundamental notion of sovereignty.
In fact, some of the same people who regularly go on Fox News to rail on about the "Benghazi conspiracy" helped promote the notion that we were invading Iraq because Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction -- the most pernicious lie ever used in recent American politics.
Psychiatric confinement of sane people is uniformly considered a particularly pernicious form of repression and Soviet punitive psychiatry was one of the key weapons of both illegal and legal repression.
At the heart of every Gough conviction has been the pernicious belief that the human form is either something to be ashamed of, or a potential weapon.
Although juvenile arrests on all charges have been dropping in recent years, the number of youths apprehended on drug charges jumped 66percentt in 2006, while the number found with weapons did not drop, a signs, officials said, that gang activity had an increasingly pernicious grip on teenagers here.
Two dozen men with guns entered an Oklahoma City diner promptly at midnight on Wednesday, intent on inaugurating a pernicious new law allowing the state's 142,000 citizens with concealed-handgun licenses to begin wearing their loaded weapons publicly.
Political figures say the potential for any quote to blow up at any time has the pernicious effect of making them more cautious, forever conscious that the next words out of their mouth could become a weapon against them.
