Sentence examples for tendency to destroy from inspiring English sources

(The same doctor noted his "tendency to destroy furniture," and diagnosed him with "psychoneurosis").

No one knows quite how many survive, partly because of the artist's tendency to destroy the canvases that he wasn't happy with.

This is the realm, she suggested, in which "man cannot change and cannot act and in which, therefore, he has a distinct tendency to destroy".

Americans would "resort for repose and security to institutions which have a tendency to destroy their civil and political rights," he wrote.

The violent destruction of life and property incident to war, the continual effort and alarm attendant on a state of continual danger, will compel nations the most attached to liberty to resort for repose and security to institutions which have a tendency to destroy their civil and political rights.

Barnes cites three pathologies of contemporary capitalism which the next upgrade needs to address: first, its tendency to destroy nature; second, the growing gap between rich and poor; and third, the fact that despite massive increases in the wealth generating capacity of the economy, research shows that few people have experienced any improvement in happiness or overall wellbeing.

But coups, a mistrustful elite, foreign meddling and his own little-d Duvalierist tendencies conspired to destroy Mr. Aristide's presidency.

So they designed countervailing centers of power at the national level and between the central government and the states as a check on the tendency of passions instilled in factions to destroy liberty.

While we respect that desire, it's hard to sit idly by as the worst tendencies in American politics are allowed to destroy this country unchecked by at least a modicum of critical rebuke.

Our society has a tendency to escalate conflict and immediately go to destroy mode.

"It's a tendency for the Rwandan government to use genocide to destroy any perceived opponents outside Rwanda," he said.