Sentence examples for proves destructive from inspiring English sources

It's not all bad; the action evokes a sad and touching portrait perhaps a self-portrait of an elderly man in self-portrait ofnces, whose bankelderlys flare up with a force that ultimanely proves destructine (or perhapstaticn't).

Similarly, it may well be appropriate to impose limits upon the percentages that a given institution can hold of any new product until the ramifications are understood, or we should implement some enhanced "threat level" protocol to get on top of a trend before it proves destructive.

But the fame would prove destructive.

His traumatic past has left a crack in his personality that will ultimately prove destructive.

"The deep unflinching knowledge of anything will in the end prove destructive," Sontag says, summing up Bergman's idea.

Individual players operating by the rules of the jungle come to realize that this is proving destructive to all.

They invested billions in an industry knowing it would prove destructive to the air, water, climate, and health of Albertans?

Although, in fact, fervid nationalism often proved destructive, Mazzini advocated a united Europe of free peoples, in which national singularities would be transcended in a pan-European harmony.

Her oppositional view of "the system" as an enemy rather than a mode of collective defense suggests a sort of countertransference, an identification with the desires of her patient, whose desires — due to his illness — may well prove destructive.

Last year a rebellion led by Mr Norman and Mr Zahawi against a reform of the House of Lords was backed by 47 new Tory members; that proved destructive to Conservative fortunes, since the Liberal Democrats retaliated by wrecking a boundary review.

But the impact of Wilson's considerable wealth and celebrity status proved destructive, and the alcoholism, infidelity and ennui that plague the nouveau riche in his other popular novel, A Summer Place (1958), had their bearing on the author's own life.