Sentence examples for destructive possibility from inspiring English sources

This is the most destructive possibility of all.

Ball's suggestion is an insurance policy against that destructive possibility, kind of like suggesting that we put on a few more pounds when the harvests are robust so that when we're forced to eat less in bad times, we'll be able to shed a few more pounds without getting sick.

But sometimes these may be destructive possibilities.

In short, processes of globalization harbor creative as well as destructive possibilities for human-Earth relations.

It is easy to see why Merrill Lynch's Mr O'Neal is worried about the destructive possibilities of today's air of cynicism.

The destructive possibilities are enacted insofar as human-Earth relations are homogenized and appropriated into the globe, which is dominated by the instrumental values of technological and economic development.

Phil eagerly explores every self-destructive possibility now open to him, from jumping off buildings to smoking cigarettes to overeating and refusing to floss; at one point he even casually robs an armored truck, just to see if he can.

At the beginning of "Sexy Beast" a boulder rolls down a Spanish hillside and crashes into the hero's swimming pool -- a metaphor for the further bad luck about to ensue, but also for the reckless, risky, self-destructive possibilities of filmmaking.

This case study demonstrates the non-destructive possibilities of 3D visualisation for palaeontological material.

An unread book is an intoxicating, romantic thing, and the act of reading is, in one sense, destructive: all that possibility is reined in, made finite.

But his pressure on Israel for a unilateral ban on settlements was prejudicial, misguided, ill-informed, and ultimately destructive to any possibility of peace.