Sentence examples for destructive amounts from inspiring English sources

Several months before Hurricane Sandy battered the New Jersey Shore and the New York City region in 2012, she warned that the area was vulnerable to storm surges, which are destructive amounts of coastal water driven inland by storms.

If the permafrost continues to thaw, it is expected that there will be an increase in shallow landslides, and large rockslides with enormously destructive amounts of impact energy (Rebetez 2006; OcCC 2007).

The 3.4-ounce rule for liquids is a security measure -- destructive substances over that amount could do serious damage to life and property; 3.4 ounces of lit gasoline, or even rocket fuel, would create a lot of chaos and put on quite a show, but do little in the way of anything else aside from cosmetic damage to the plane (flesh is another matter).

The Dutch are not destroying the world's football, but what is destructive are the ridiculous amounts of transfer money in England.

The eruption of a volcano can be one of the planet's most destructive events — spewing huge amounts of rock, gas and ash that can kill people.

The EJ200 jet engine in full reheat is a massively powerful and (potentially destructive) force, creating huge amounts of heat and vibration.

Calling for adventure against Iran amounts to destructive and misleading rhetoric.

The Mining Act of 1872, which President Ulysses S. Grant signed, still sanctions destructive practices on what amounts to one-third of the country's acreage and 46% of California's.

They also possess broad proinflammatory and destructive potential by expressing amounts of the inflammatory cytokines IL-1, TNF-α and IL-6 and by producing matrix metalloproteinases [ 15].

"In addition to our destructive cows, the large amount of metal in a modern cow shed caused a moderate reduction in accuracy due to the potential for deflection of radio waves on the metal," she added.

Ironically, that ground-based missile defense system, which uses a so-called "hit to kill" approach, where the amount of destructive energy released on impact disables or destroys the intercepted missile, is less ambitious and seemingly more practical than missile defense schemes of years past.