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Перевод: pernicious
[прилагательное] пагубный; вредный; гибельный
Тезаурус:
- But the taxman's generosity is only part of the problem: more pernicious is the way he imputes a set amount of taxable income according to the size of a car's engine.
- "A healthy situation should be the first object that ought to fix the attention of the Society -because there is no person but is very well convinced that a marshy and low Ground exhales very unwholesome and putrid vapours which affect the bodies of individuals that may be exposed to their action either through the pores or attracted by the breath, or otherways by the Food and Drink-if these particles will affect healthy bodies, their effect must be much more pernicious on diseased animals, therefore the Veterinary Infirmary should not be established in an atmosphere continually charged with particles destructive to health.
- They can last for up to 110 years (some CFCs for 20,000 years) and are the most pernicious greenhouse gases.
- National service, imposed sacrifice and sharing, points and queues, idealism in the face of a pernicious enemy, the dynamics of coalition - all contributed to the sense that, in education as elsewhere, something could and must be done.
- Because still in 1988, under the pressure of social instability and political crises, homosexuality could be regarded as a kind of privation or error, an "inverted positivity", an inimical, pernicious, inauthenticity always threatening to return from within the true and the authentic.
- The most pernicious aspect of ageism is not that which is present in the minds and attitudes of individuals, but that which is confirmed and reinforced by the functions and rules of everyday social life.
- bring into active play all the possible forces, schools and clubs, etc., to neutralise and overcome the pernicious influences of "blind alley" employment, to insure that, however uneducative and useless a juvenile's job may be from the point of view of the future, he shall not on that account emerge from it unfitted for any other kind of labour.
- The pernicious notion that we can believe whatever we feel like believing may not be unique to the twentieth century but it has certainly found great popularity in it.
- Even while freeing its market at home, America found itself locked into the pernicious logic of government-to-government deals abroad.
- Is this not the worst and most pernicious kind of sexism?
- And in all of them homosexuality echoes Augustinian privation - the more pernicious for being deeply, inherently inadequate, a kind of non-being and inauthenticity: an inimical absence which provokes paranoia and on to which is projected the fear of difference inherent within sexual difference.
- The consequences of this last point can be pernicious, actually encouraging a way of thinking whereby the aggressor in homophobic violence is somehow identified with his or her victim: both are homosexual, the one repressed, the other overt.
- I regard age discrimination, or ageism, as being as offensive and pernicious as sexism and racism.
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