Sentence examples for damaging something from inspiring English sources

Much as the absolutists on each side relish such clashes between church and state, forcing the issue risks damaging something worthwhile.

Erosion, compaction, pollution, development and loss of organic matter are damaging something that's as vital to life as water and air.

"In terms of our national memory and our recent history, they are damaging something that we thought would remain one of the tangible icons.

Yet in a thoughtful Radio 4 essay, The Character Crunch, Bremner questioned whether the "worrying bland and similar" new intake of MPs who "seem to have risen without trace" might be damaging something more than his livelihood.

When thieves steal metal from heritage assets such as listed churches, artefacts from the ground or historic stonework from an ancient castle, they are stealing from all of us and damaging something which is often irreplaceable".

Five such factories were now being planned, he said, claiming it will make it "almost impossible to imagine where all the energy can come from without damaging something incredibly wild and fragile".

To ravage is to destroy or severely damage something.

"To destroy or damage something is to take its power.

"In some cases taking a sample damages something that is really pristine," Ms. Nagy said.

"I thought maybe I had damaged something, and so the first couple of laps were just a check of how the car was behaving.

"The citizen is perceived as a small, incapable child that can constantly damage something," said Dengir Mir Mehmet Firat, a member of the governing party.