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Pernicious Sentence Examples

  • The pernicious weed has spread all through the flower bed.
  • He had pernicious anemia at age 49 years.
  • In the war on terrorism and the role on HIV, the UN's role is equally pernicious.
  • The grandmother put up with the pernicious nonsense.
  • She had pernicious anemia, in which vitamin B12 is not absorbed from the intestine.
  • There's one particularly pernicious piece of red tape that Kent County Council supports.
  • He felt it was pernicious doctrine.
  • In the same way science fiction has developed rules, I find all rules very pernicious to writing.
  • The last two had a pernicious effect on Cuba, draining it of horses, money and of men.
  • This woman exercised a most pernicious influence over him.
  • This tendency to destroy organic matter makes the repeated application of lime a pernicious practice, especially on land which contains little humus to begin with.
  • Even when it came to be authorized by Roman law under certain restrictions, it was still looked upon as a pernicious crime.
  • Aliens are granted the civil rights enjoyed by Mexicans, but the government reserves the right to expel those guilty of pernicious conduct.
  • The good he did was limited to the spheres of public works and police; in other respects his rule was a pernicious influence for Cuba.
  • Of the mortality due to malarial disease a small part only is referable to the direct attack of intermittent, and chiefly to the fever in its pernicious form.
  • The commission reported favourably, selecting as a site Blair's original Port Cornwallis, but pointing out and avoiding the vicinity of a salt swamp which seemed to have been pernicious to the old colony.
  • These resolutions later acquired extraordinary and pernicious prominence in the historical elaboration of the states'-rights doctrine.
  • Vigorous opposition was made by Liebig and Berzelius, the latter directing his attack against Dumas, whom he erroneously believed to be the author of what was, in his opinion, a pernicious theory.
  • He consistently contended for a sound financial system, and vigorously opposed the operations of the "Land Bank" and the issue of pernicious bills of credit.
  • He was keenly alive to its pernicious influence on the cherished interest of his life, the cause of learning.
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