Sentences with phrase «malign influence»

Poverty exerts its malign influence on health in a variety of ways.

They argue that fossil fuel companies are a malign influence and weaken climate ambition to protect their profits.

It's one in which his failure to make his reality yours is explained as the malign influence of other people, paid for by dark forces, distorting your reality.

Cheney had a malign influence on the policies of the last Bush administration, not least in regard to energy and climate.

This is the story of the most famous «science» graph of the 21st century and how its malign influence got propelled onwards and upwards - to the IPCC, Al Gore's Oscar - winning crockumentary, every western government, every schoolhouse in the developed world, even to the Vatican.

In 2017 we grew the world (and malign influence!)

If you look at the Fund's «990» tax form, you'll find even more reason to question the veracity of the mayor's concern about the malign influence of private money in public schools.

Sullivan is an altar boy who comes under Costello's malign influence at a young, impressionable age, seduced from the path of good by rolls of bread and quarts of milk.

Perhaps Clegg is a «nice guy» but even the nicest can come under malign influence and after watching the Neil / Flanders demolition of Cable, we now just how malign and hypocritical Clegg's closest political associates are.

What seems likely is that, with a fragmented opposition, the «First Past the Post» electoral system will have an even more malign influence on British politics than normal.

Lib Dem peer Lord Avebury suggested: «For Mr Crosby to have any dealings whatsoever with government departments, and to exercise a malign influence in the background, is harmful to public health in the United Kingdom and he should be got rid of and sent back to Australia.»

An important advisor and fundraiser for Dickens, Lloyd Williams will be a baleful and malign influence on her Speakership, should she get it.

«Already this morning, when I first made a comment on social media, the trolls were up and about and presenting their malign influence.

All the indications are that Donald Trump will lose today's US election, but the malign influence of Trumpism will endure far longer than its namesake's presidential ambitions.

Under Kroenkes malign influence, all the former good turned to mildew and filth.

For this reason I consider it rather a misnomer to call Thomas» Fifth Way the «teleological» argument, if only because so many people, including Prof. Koons and Ms. Pearcey, conflate teleology with design, no doubt under Paley's malign influence.

It is telling that Novak seems to ascribe such teachings to the malign influence of the French.

One roommate — predictably the son of an angrily lapsed Catholic — pointed to Crusader barbarity and Torquemada's thumbscrews, which proved the Church's malign influence.

«The Russian government chose to destabilize Europe through military pressure, malicious cyberactivities and malign influence across numerous countries.

In effect they argue that a world designed for human habitation must include negative feedbacks that maintain the state of the planet against our malign influences.

Not exact matches

«We condemn this latest activity in the strongest possible terms and we will not accept nor tolerate any malign foreign cyber operations, intrusions, or compromises — to include influence operations,» said Jeanette Manfra, the chief cybersecurity official at Homeland Security.

Probably the main influence of the church, one that can be malign or benign, is on the attitudes of people, especially its more active members.

Paulinho — Much maligned for not delivering on his great hype, the Brazilian has become a passenger in many games this season, despite some improvement recently he's not a creative influence and he's not what we need right now.

One prediction about the media's election can be made with complete confidence: the argument about malign media influence working against Labour will revive.

She could hardly fail with a speech that name - checked Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan while criticising Iran's «malign» influence in the Middle East and warning the west to «engage but beware» of Putin's Russia.

According to WWD, Kevin Federline's much - maligned Details «Power and Influence» issue is one of the magazine's biggest sellers of the year, selling «more than 75,000 copies, nearly 15,000 above K - Fed's March 2005 i... Read

Russian officials have made numerous suggestions that the failure was due to malign foreign influence, including U.S. scientific radars or covert military action, or natural phenomena such as solar flares and cosmic rays.

I met him in his attic lair in Whitehall, from where he exercised his influence, benign and malign but all - pervasive.

The constant maligning of MVA victims over decades by the IBC / insurers in advertising has had the intended consequence of negatively influencing the public and that has included potential jurors.