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.
The use of prescription antacids that reduce the stomach acid can lead to vitamin B12 deficiency which can in turn cause pernicious anemia.
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.
Indeed, it gives rise to victim-blaming in a particularly pernicious form, in which the moral narrative is turned on its head, and the real victim and victimizer undergo a role reversal.
The government exercise a pernicious influence over Turkish broadcasters, meaning that people have turned their attention towards social media platforms and independent websites to get their news.
Rating agencies were complicit in this, too, as they helped banks structure these securities to attract the highest ratings.A second pernicious outcome of the old rules was that they turned investment banks from intermediaries to proprietary traders.
It seems likely to me that further monetary stimulus will be required at some point in order to help ensure that a slowdown in economic activity doesn't turn into something more pernicious".
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.
For example, there ought to be a lot more sexually transmitted microbes than we know about, and many dismissed as benign may turn out to be pernicious.
For example, there ought to be a great many more sexually transmitted microbes than we know about, and many that are dismissed as benign may turn out to be pernicious.
