Sentence examples for the destructive consequences from inspiring English sources

Harry Hopkins, the chain-smoking, high-energy confidant of Franklin Roosevelt, passionately believed in the value of work and the destructive consequences of living on benefit.

Where else had I recently heard such special pleading from an industry which is often recklessly indifferent to the destructive consequences of its own behaviour?

Across the country, American cities are beginning to reckon with the destructive consequences of the postmodern spree: The detachment of architecture from the realm of ideas.

TAUNTING and aggressive teasing have long been seen as disagreeable rites of adolescence, until a string of suicides by bullied students raised awareness of the destructive consequences.

For seven long years, President Bush has refused to confront the challenge of climate change and provide the leadership that this country and the world needs to reduce greenhouse gases and avoid the destructive consequences of global warming.

Only passing reference is made to the destructive consequences of the bomb, and most of the discussion about the atomic scientists' reaction to the bombing of Japan is confined to descriptions of petty, egotistical spats with one another.

It could be that excess MMP-9 acts directly on lung ECM, as was proposed for the destructive consequence of overexpression of MMP-9 in a model of atherosclerosis (Gough et al., 2006).

It also summarized the huge body of literature on the unintended, destructive consequences of the accountability movement.

Increasingly, we have concrete proof of the heartless, destructive consequences of the corporate approach to education.

Brzezinski's is full of wonkish detail and some truly leaden language: "... with the potential international benefits of the foregoing unfortunately vitiated by the cumulatively destructive consequences of continued and maybe even somewhat expanded.... " Kagan prefers to paint with a broad brush, sprinkling a memorable metaphor here, a striking simile there.

Both plays accept as a natural (if lamentable) fact of contemporary culture that people with limited opportunities to better their lives will settle for the temporary release that intoxicants can provide, ignoring the more destructive consequences until their capacities give out or the law catches up with them.