Sentence examples for seconds to destroy from inspiring English sources

"It takes two seconds to destroy a building and it takes a long time to build.

As Glee's Will Schuester said, "It takes years to build a good reputation, and only seconds to destroy it".

It can take 10 years to build a good reputation — and 10 seconds to destroy it.

As Warren Buffett has said, "Your reputation takes a lifetime to build, but only seconds to destroy.” Goldman may have finally managed to destroyed their reputation this time.

We know from decades of experience that what takes seconds to destroy often takes years to rebuild.

"Grief," he says, "seems at first to destroy not just all patterns, but also to destroy a belief that a pattern exists".

To win the war on terrorism, one must therefore set two goals: first to destroy the terrorists and, second, to begin a political effort that focuses on the conditions that brought about their emergence.

Soon, he becomes involved in dual benign conspiracies with Jake: the first an attempt to win back the love of his daughter, the second to destroy the wicked Bretton James.

Alliance ultimately emerged the victor after managing to be the first to destroy their opponents' towers, allowing them to lay waste to a structure known as an "ancient".

She was the first Russian ship to fire on enemy targets on land during World War I, the first to be hit by a German airstrike, and the first to destroy a submarine, albeit a Russian one.

When your enemy is focused on your first attack, use your second army to destroy all the buildings that you can -- town centers and houses, preferably, to decrease their population.