deleterious influence

It must have made the President proud to see the deleterious influence he has had on yet another friend.

Inactivity has a major, deleterious influence on the weight of Americans.

I did not believe in the supernatural, but it seemed apparent that the place was exerting a deleterious influence upon Amberville.

There isn't an escapist impulse in the bunch, which ought to reassure those who lament the deleterious influence of television on the culture.

The indictment includes slowness in decision-making, a vested interest in avoiding change, the deleterious influence of the Treasury and inappropriate training.

The international setting makes for a good varied read, but there is a plethora of sixth-form schoolgirl French and some deleterious influences from the thrillers.

Disregard for laws, report-padding, bribe-taking and encouragement of toadyism and adulation had a deleterious influence on the moral atmosphere in society.

The Children's Aid Society tried to keep the boys physically healthy and safe from deleterious influences, and to educate them to grow up to be useful members of society.

I will correct them--not the facts, but the verdicts--striking out such clauses as could have a deleterious influence on the other side, and replacing them with clauses of a more judicious character.

Although the Spanish were bad governors and very bad administrators, to check the deleterious influence of new the dominators gave to the greater impulse two great archbishops, Carlo and Federico Borromeo.

Furthermore, the interviews (with over 100 prospective fathers-in-law) were having a deleterious influence on Ranjit's efficiency; he was exhausted all the time, and no wonder - his mind was reeling with comparisons among 100 future wives.

Miss Conrad played with enthusiasm, but one has to wonder whether Joshua Rifkin's popularizing of Joplin two decades ago didn't have a deleterious influence, given the lumbering quality of his recordings of this springy, light-footed music.

The stories in The Land of Little Rain feature the deleterious influences of man on nature, including the wasting of pastures by grazing domesticated herds and the ceaseless mining of resources, which destroy the land, though not irreparably.

Waterhouse believed it was a matter of great difficulty to find a stone "proof against the evil influences of the peculiar climate of Manchester" but decided that Yorkshire-quarried Spinkwell stone would resist "the deleterious influences of Manchester atmosphere".