How to Use "pernicious" with Example Sentences

1. First , state-level politics can play a pernicious role .
2. The pernicious link between banks and governments stymies progress .
3. Now the focus is on inequality itself , and its supposedly pernicious consequences .
4. If elections are to remain , states can at least try to fight their most pernicious effects .
5. The pernicious link will persist .