The ocean and human culture, no longer thought of as separate, exist in a relationship of mutual and potentially destructive influence. (curatorsintl.org)
Ya, it's a good thing that the negative, destructive influence of foreign money hasn't entered into the Canadian oil industry in other ways. (ethicaloil.org)
It is filled with emotional rancor, allegations, distortions of personalities and of life events, and an intense bitterness which serves to enhance the acrimony between the parents and to create what current research demonstrates is the single most destructive influence on children of divorce — parental conflict. (mediate.com)