Sentence examples for destructive intentions from inspiring English sources

Is that stone emblem of a battleship with "TEMPLE" above it a disapproving comment on the ship's destructive intentions?

Since the suggestion of MacKie (1969) that fort vitrification might destabilize fort walls, the debate as to motives has focused on combative or destructive intentions.

A proof-of-concept virus is intended to show off the programmer's skill in creating something that has never been done before but often opens the door for less-skilled virus authors with more destructive intentions.

Specifically, he wanted to see if people who are suicidal might have stronger implicit associations between themselves and death--associations that might point toward self-destructive intentions.

Steve has a destructive machismo of his own, a settled intention never to lose face and be bullied by a bunch of children.

In one of his final works Justice for Hedgehogs, the late NYU professor of philosophy and law Ronald Dworkin, dealt with the question of the person who is so intent on self-sacrifice that his good intentions become self-destructive and hence no longer a form of good.

Regulations imposed by an outgoing president cannot easily or quickly be undone by his successor; they thus form a wall around Mr Clinton's achievements.George Bush's intentions are not wholly destructive.

In establishing these limits on metaphysical knowledge, Kant's intentions are not merely destructive.

Good intentions do not justify destructive behavior.

As Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke: "Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction...".. There is only one way out of this destructive cycle of harm causing harm, and that is with the intention to create harmlessness, the intention to be kind.

Here as elsewhere, however, the intention was neither radical nor destructive.