Sentence examples for primarily destructive from inspiring English sources

But the conglomerate approach finally came to be seen in the 1990s as primarily destructive, with the value coming from financial engineering rather than business acumen.

So far, then, Aristotle's appeals to homonymy or multivocity are primarily destructive, in the sense that they attempt to undermine a Platonic presumption regarded by Aristotle as unsustainable.

One reason for cryosurgery's relatively poor result can be related to the fact that primarily destructive therapies of individual AKs do not prevent the progression of AK into SCCs in adjacent dysplastic tissues.

It is important to distinguish that in other cases the primary intent is homicide and the event represents domestic violence rather than a primarily self destructive motive (Salari and Lefevre-Sillito 2006).

Eosinophils are involved in defense against parasites, and they participate in hypersensitivity and inflammatory reactions, primarily by dampening their destructive effects.

Free radical scavenging, primarily of the highly destructive, short-lived radicals generated by the radiolysis of water, has been assumed to be the mechanism of melanin radioprotection [12].

Its protective or destructive role primarily depends on the dosage and activation of secondary signaling pathways.

Human impacts have degraded marine ecosystems primarily through overexploitation and destructive fishing practices, pollution, and climate change.

Paw inflammation, bone erosion and cartilage damage were significantly reduced in mice treated with JAKi + SYKi, as a result of interfering in systemic T/B cell functions and in local destructive events, primarily osteoclast and FLS activity.

The bactericidal properties of LYZ are primarily due to its destructive effect on the bacterial cell wall: it damages the outer membrane, disintegrates the cytoplasm and increases the permeability of the inner membrane, which eventually leads to bacterial lysis [ 16, 17].

Neutron tomography, in contrast, is used primarily as a non-destructive testing technique.