Sentence examples for destruction in terms from inspiring English sources

"In some respects, Brexit would be as much of a setback for Europe as for London — it's almost mutually assured destruction, in terms of taking out momentum from the whole ecosystem".

Winkelmann wanted Zero-Day to be something like a "symphony of destruction" in terms of the robots working in unison to no longer help people, but destroy them.

Although it might not seem like a big deal, the late Soviet Marshal Nikolai Ogarkov correctly noted in 1984 that improvements in accuracy "make it possible to sharply increase (by at least an order of magnitude) the destructive potential of conventional weapons, bringing them closer, so to speak, to weapons of mass destruction in terms of effectiveness".

We found that the effect of patch destruction (in terms of number of species lost) was strongest at intermediate values of dispersal when source sink dynamics were important in maintaining high levels of pre-destruction local species richness (Fig. 3a).

In contrast, a separate global agenda is now focused on invasive alien species (IAS), which are currently considered second only to habitat destruction in terms of loss of biodiversity (Sandlund et al. 1999).

Isis has sought to couch the destruction in religious terms, saying it was targeting idols, but that has not stopped it from selling artefacts to fund its operations.

One of the militants in the video describes the artefacts as "false idols" and seeks to justify their destruction in religious terms.

Furthermore, society is bad at evaluating ecological destruction in economic terms or dollar values.

The rates of conformational defect formation and destruction are obtained in terms of a distribution over possible conformational states.

This legislation has slowed down the destruction of wetlands in terms of unbridled development, but the things that have happened to the wetlands go beyond overt land development, even though that pressure is always there.

The trail of destruction left behind them in terms of competition and results being not what they should be is huge.