Sentence examples for potentially destructive effects from inspiring English sources

In the early 1960's, the United States and the Soviet Union first recognized the potentially destructive effects of the electromagnetic pulse, or EMP, emitted by nuclear weapons detonations.

But remember that alchemy was a risky undertaking in more ways than one: much of it was banned (bearing in mind its potentially destructive effects on the economy if anyone did actually succeed in making it work), and persistent European offenders could find themselves on a gallows gilded and decked with tinsel, like some gruesome Christmas tree.

Only meaningful face-to-face interactions can trump the potentially destructive effects of diversity on trust and solidarity.

Due to the potentially destructive effects Bo's dismissal would have on party unity, party elders were consulted on the matter.

These observations may represent important subacute effects of hypoxia that help to harness an initial powerful and potentially destructive proinflammatory effect, may be a part of tissue repair processes, or may be an important component of a hypoinflammatory response manifested by some patients with sepsis and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS).

Ian Bogost, the famed game creator and professor, calls the wave of habit-forming technologies the "cigarette of this century" and warns of equally addictive and potentially destructive side-effects.

The present overview explores properties of EPS, and their potentially destructive (dissolution) and constructive (precipitation) effects on precipitation.

All evidences point to the advantageous use of lower oxidative temperatures: more effective penetration of stabilization depth, lessen destructive effects of over-oxidation, and potentially shorter processing times.

At the heart of the BCS is a thin deformable metal foil that is designed to decouple the effects of differential thermal expansion between the two components and thereby mitigate the generation of potentially destructive thermal stresses in the stack.

During the last 2 years of her Ph.D., she worked toward elucidating the effects of halogenated methyl radicals -- molecules that are very active in the atmosphere and therefore potentially destructive to ozone -- by observing their behavior with high-resolution infrared spectroscopy and absorption in the lab.

Any potentially destructive activity, such as mining, is likely to be prohibited.