Sentence examples for destructive direction from inspiring English sources

"I walked out thinking that there may be some opportunity to work with this Administration to shift our foreign policy in a more positive, less destructive direction," she said, and then paused.

In the most recent edition of Science magazine a group of Brazilian scientists warned there was a growing discrepancy between the positive role played by the country's diplomats at UN climate talks, and the increasingly destructive direction of legislation and infrastructure projects that do not adequately balance environmental and social costs with the economic benefits.

A therapist can help channel your anger in a helpful, rather than destructive, direction.

Schumer said that in terms of electoral politics, Wednesday's decision would likely be a "wash" without huge effects, but he added that it would be a step in a destructive direction, and would give the rich more power.

5) reveals a major flaw in the Cambridge mechanical engineer's otherwise brilliant scheme: at a certain degree of evolution, that is currently impossible to predict, the computer will most assuredly develop an awareness of its self-destructive direction and refuse to be shrunk any further, no matter how glorious it might seem to expire in a cosmic blaze of information.

I'm not suggesting the former vice president would actually wish to advise the vicious horde who call themselves the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) – he's too red, white and true blue for that – but if he could steer them in the same self-destructive direction that he steered the USA, he'd finally be doing his country a favor.

The human brain is a miraculous thing but, as behavioural economists have demonstrated, it sometimes leads us in unfortunate, even self-destructive directions.

Although these waves cancel one another out in most directions through destructive interference, they add constructively in a few specific directions, determined by Bragg's law: :2d \sin \theta = n \lambda Here d is the spacing between diffracting planes, \theta is the incident angle, n is any integer, and λ is the wavelength of the beam.

Unless the union can somehow get a grip on the terrorist threat (or, at least, be seen to be making progress in that direction), this destructive process is likely to accelerate.

It was demonstrated that the presence of amorphous metal fibers in a concrete matrix has limited expansion in the horizontal direction, resulting in less destructive external surface and contributing to the stabilization of Poisson's ratio at high stress level.

In some parts of the United States, we are starting to see our culture and economic life moving in a direction that is less destructive of the planet.