perniciously


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in a harmfully insidious manner

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in a noxiously baneful way

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College credentials are now a perniciously legitimate mechanism of employment discrimination, systematically favoring those privileged enough to have attained them, regardless of underlying aptitude or ability.
The Westminster parliamentary democracy which so effectively delivers in England and we so fervently admire, is intrinsically ill-suited to our mindset, culture and sensibilities but perniciously enough and most effectively serves certain political mafias, power brokers and feudal cliques and maintains their stranglehold on the system and people without interruption.
Traditional indicators and measures are at best incomplete; often, they are perniciously inaccurate, even as they delude us into believing we actually know the individual learner.
(14) Thus such innovations, no matter how fruitful, may first meet with external and perhaps more perniciously internal (and at times unconscious) resistance.
More perniciously, the conflation of contraception and abortion with the eugenic programs of an earlier generation, together with the genocide-rhetoric popular among current antichoice activists, speaks directly to the troubled experience of non-white America.
Accordingly, Ladson-Billings identifies race as a social, rather than a scientific construct, that is transformative within racialized power structures which have perniciously "dogged" (2007) African-American children at many different levels.
'This bill...prevents environmental noise that perniciously affects the health and safety of people.
More perniciously, if hedge accounting is applied on the basis of a qualitative test and an auditor belatedly disallows the qualitative test, taking advantage of this seemingly liberalized process might very well lead to an earnings restatement or error correction.
The facts are easily verifiable, the public record voluminous and indisputable - if only this government official, her salary and the state resources at her command paid for by the people's money, had the basic integrity to Google history instead of using her official perch to propagandize falsely, perniciously.
Bush waged war on Iraq, which means succumbing to the pressure of sinister individuals and organizations who are working perniciously to "create a false impression that war is the only way to address the threats posed by Iran."
HMs often directly impinge on the structure of thylakoid membranes at chloroplast site and also on photosynthetic proteins, which thereby perniciously affect the efficiency of photochemistry properties in dark-adapted leaves and photosystem II [18].
This band of what became seven, including painter James Collinson and sculptor Thomas Woolner, vowed, in the words of Rossetti's brother, the writer William Michael, 'to study Nature attentively' and to avoid mannerisms introduced by Raphael and exemplified most perniciously in the paintings of Joshua Reynolds.
It proposes that through an array of machinations, elements of contemporary popular culture are perniciously effective in regard to this undoing of feminism, while simultaneously appearing to be engaging in a well-informed and even well-intended response to 'feminism' (p.