Sentence examples for a destructive capacity from inspiring English sources

Lithium has a destructive capacity for thyroid cells and might play a role in modulating the thyroid autoimmune response (Wilson et al. 1991).

The series of waves first came ashore at the North Spit station in Eureka after a 26 minute travel time, but the largest surges were seen just to the north at Crescent City and arrived close to low tide, a condition that would have lowered the risk had the surges had a destructive capacity.

A major distinction must also be made between conventional bombs and atomic and thermonuclear bombs, which have a far greater destructive capacity.

The heat of the 2016 campaign derived from its civilizational intensity, from the conviction among conservatives that America was on a precipice and from liberals that America risked handing a nuclear arsenal, of almost infinite destructive capacity, to a rage-prone reality-television star with no ability to control his own impulses.

The question is important as an H-bomb – a shorthand term for a thermonuclear device – would mark a technological leap forward from the atomic bombs it has experimented with so far, and an exponential leap in the country's destructive capacity.

World War II brought an even more sobering realization of the destructive capacity of imperial powers of the West and their lack of any legitimacy to lead the world.

Should the destructive capacity of radical groups in an age of increasingly available weapons of mass destruction achieve anything approaching parity with American military technology, then America might well find itself in Rome's sandals.

In August 2005, Kerry Emanuel published a paper in Nature associating the increase in sea surface temperature (SST) since 1950 with an increase in maximum hurricane potential intensity and the destructive capacity of hurricanes, focusing on hurricanes in the North Atlantic and North Pacific.

The Geneva Conventions, adopted after World War II, represent a more recent attempt to limit and restrain war's destructive capacity, he explained.

The report argued that U.S. nuclear strategy could no longer be built around its superior strategic bomber force and its destructive capacity, because those could be neutralized by a surprise missile attack.

The destructive capacity of joint neutrophils in RA, together with a delay in apoptosis, is well established, but peripheral changes in neutrophil function are less clear.