Sentence examples for wreck the idea from inspiring English sources

The phonograph and radio threatened to wreck the idea of music copyright then embodied in sheet music.

It wrecks the idea that the U.S. will ever have a legitimate partner (referred to by the COIN field manual as a "north star") in Afghanistan or that our strategy will lead to the destruction of al-Qaida.

In Brussels there has been an air of calm after it appeared that the crisis was over, but unrest in Greece could wreck that idea.

But the rapidly advancing North Vietnamese Army wrecked that idea, shelling the base on the morning of April 29 and shooting down some South Vietnamese Air Force planes trying to take off, their wreckage littering the runway.

Meanwhile, in the U.S., many members of Congress find the idea of carbon taxes totally anathema and think such taxes would wreck the economy.

Their ideas, if implemented, would crash the economy, wreck the regulatory state, exacerbate the already outrageous gap between the rich and everybody else.

It would wreck the surprise.

Bushfires wreck the horizon.

It's now a federal crime to wreck the wreck.

Thomas did not wreck the Knicks.

"It would wreck the story," she said.