Sentence examples for it would be destructive from inspiring English sources

After that follow-up phone interview, in which he again made an offhand remark about how badly he needed a vacation, Mr. Piven called back to ask that the sentiment be stricken from the record because to include it would be "destructive" to him "as a human being".

"If Israel intervened on the side of America, it would be destructive to any coalition against terrorism".

"It would be destructive not to pass a budget," said the Senate majority leader, Bill Frist of Tennessee.

An effort to extend hate-crime legislation to include gay victims has produced a bitter backlash in some quarters: Senator Jim DeMint, Republican of South Carolina, sent a letter to clerics in his state arguing that it would be destructive to "faith, families and freedom".

You want to get to the point where they tell you that if you remove your product, it would be destructive to their business.

If that were not to happen, it would be destructive, as AIG is the largest commercial insurer in the U.S. Should the company be split up, which is more than likely, it will probably hold onto its core property casualty business, spin off its auto insurance and life/annuities businesses, while selling its aircraft leasing division.

Top-selling daily Corriere della Sera sees Mr Berlusconi's decision to quit as "a gesture of notable responsibility, even if it could introduce a degree of temporary ambiguity that would be destructive for a country exposed to months of financial speculation".

"To change records established by the official timer because of later electronic analyses of such events would be destructive to the integrity of all sporting events," it contended.

Adjusted for inflation (and deflation), by 2009 the real federal minimum wage had been raised to a level 32 percent higher than it had been in 2006 — nowhere near our hypothetical height, which we all agree would be destructive — but perhaps high enough to have some of those effects.

Mr. Greason said that he had dreamed of going to Mars his whole life, but that making a "dash" for Mars would be destructive of the dream, leading to its abandonment the way Americans abandoned the Moon.

Smith warns against taking this license for a general promotion of virtue too far that, he says, would be "destructive of all liberty, security, and justice"—but he also says that neglecting it will lead "to many gross disorders and shocking enormities" (TMS 81).