pernicious influence

collocation in English

meaningsofperniciousandinfluence

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pernicious
adjective
uk
/pəˈnɪʃ.əs/us
/pɚˈnɪʃ.əs/
having a very harmful effect ...
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influence
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˈɪn.flu.əns/us
/ˈɪn.flu.əns/
the power to have an effect on people or things, or a person or thing that is able to ...
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(Definition ofperniciousandinfluencefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Such arrangements can have aperniciousinfluenceon even the most senior clinicians and investigators.
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However, before the war, both the public and the government held advertising and its professionals in the lowest of esteem and tagged it as an industry ofperniciousinfluence.
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Battie was in the meantime satisfied to concentrate on what he considered to be theperniciousinfluenceof nonconformity on his parishioners.
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I believe that many of the films shown in this country have a distinctly demoralising andperniciousinfluence.
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They are a subject for debate in themselves as they are a seriouslyperniciousinfluencein that they remove a large chunk of local accountability.
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He spoke of theperniciousinfluenceof speech writers, and it was perhaps not an accident that he turned to me at that time.
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In that way it has resulted in a mostperniciousinfluenceupon literature.
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They exercise the mostperniciousinfluenceon our society, especially on family life, separating children from parents and making huge profits and fortunes for their founders.
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I should like to pick up some of the points that he made, particularly the emphasis that he placed on theperniciousinfluenceof organised fraud on social security benefits.
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The experience of crime and the fear of violent crime in particular have a deeplyperniciousinfluenceon people's lives and their ability to participate in the community.
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We flatter ourselves that we are rid of thisperniciousinfluencein our public affairs, but are we not substituting another form of corruption far more insidious?
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But everyone is agreed that every reasonable step must be taken to protect children as far as possible from pernicious influences.
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She has seen her liquor traffic flourish and extend its pernicious influences to hamlets and cities and homes, and she has been powerless to stop it.
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