Sentence examples for destruction ourselves from inspiring English sources

Not that we want to experience this destruction ourselves.

Now we recognise a new agent of mass destruction – ourselves". According to BirdLife International, the organisation that assesses bird populations worldwide, the natural rate of bird extinction is about one per century.

We'd come to see the destruction for ourselves.

Zombies are popular because we sense that we are threatened with extinction but that the real culprit won't be alien invasion or artificial intelligence, but our own destruction of ourselves through our consumption of natural resources.

At a local level in time, people think things are fine -- then things rapidly spiral out of control until they become unstoppable, and we wreak massive destruction on ourselves.

And if my hunch is right, the addition of this moment of universal weeping for our state of being, these tiny tears, might change the course of the river of destruction we find ourselves in, not by the addition of a new idea but by the inclusion of a little piece of truth that needs to be present: We are regretful.

The problem of modern terror — terror that combines an apocalyptic ideology and a yearning for destruction — demands honesty with ourselves about the nature of the threat and honesty in politics.

His wrinkled protagonist, Daniel Defoe, tracks the destruction we wreak on ourselves and our planet, from the Spanish invasion of South America in the 16th century to the imagined heat of the United States in the year 2500.

All the same, we seem to have got to a stage in the world's history where at every point we are brought up against "human nature" as an impassable wall that prevents us taking obvious measures to save ourselves from destruction.

Lingering doubts are made more visible and pointed when confronted with humanity's violence, with the death and destruction we bring upon ourselves.

"We Chinese will prepare ourselves for the destruction of all the cities east of Xian.