Sentences with phrase «destructive elements»

But it also suggested the chaotic and sometimes destructive elements of twentieth century life.

We all know why it exists, but the grade - point average is one of the more destructive elements in American education.

Must have mechanical systems that are save to operate and well protected from destructive elements.

When a woman becomes aware of the negative or destructive elements in the messages she has been programmed to follow, she realizes that she has options....

Ravitch will speak at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 14 at the Orpheum Theater, 216 State St.. After a talk on destructive elements of education reform, Ravitch will sign copies of her new book, «Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools.»

Protracted litigation can be one of the most destructive elements in society: it destroys businesses, breaks up marriages, and damages health.

Heightened visual excitement derives from an inherent contradiction in process: «I was trying to combine constructive elements in paintings with areas that contained destructive elements — a balance between composition and anti-composition, if you like... (G. Richter, «On Abstract Painting,» in Writings: 1962 - 2007, New York, 2009, p. 270).

Watching governors and state chiefs go to the administration on bended knee and hustle to comply with its various demands, out of desperation to escape the more destructive elements of NCLB, doesn't strike me as good for democratic government or school improvement.

Snakes are hybridizing and their venom is becoming more complex, requiring different antivenins to treat different destructive elements.

Teach connection talk skills (including teaching couples to connect as equals on an emotional level, respect each other, listen empathically to each other and eliminate destructive elements of communication and preparing reconnection)(4.1).

The process recognizes and reinforces constructive aspects of the family's relationships while also allowing destructive elements and counter-productive interaction / communication styles to be identified, acknowledged, and changed.

Delving into one of nature's most destructive elements, these artists portray the dualistic character of tornadoes.

``... I was trying to combine constructive elements in paintings with areas that contained destructive elements — a balance between composition and anti-composition, if you like...» (G. Richter, «On Abstract Painting,» in Writings: 1962 - 2007, New York, 2009, p. 270).

The visual simplicity that Kalatozov uses to establish the story allows the filmmaker to gradually — painstakingly — develop the film's thematic complexity toward a psychological and emotional crescendo that reveals key self - destructive elements of war.

For Niebuhr, every civilization and culture, every empire and nation, has destructive elements in its period of creativity, and even creative elements in its period of decline.

She argues that by not taking tourism seriously, governments are both failing to fully capitalize on a booming industry and leaving their countries exposed to the destructive elements that accompany foreign travel: environmental degradation, lowered living standards for the poor, sex tourism, and all the subtler injustices and annoyances that materialize when droves of foreigners arrive on your shores demanding authentic cultural experiences.

(Of course, I was focusing on the destructive elements of professional football, not condemning sport in general.)

All of these were ways, some rather bloodthirsty, of recognizing that one who would destroy another person with a lie was a destructive element that society should not tolerate.

And while we may admire their loyalty to the traditional, we must also be alert to the destructive element that lurks within it.

An unassertive, defeated man discovers that he has an alter - ego, a sociopathic anarchist / terrorist who is plotting the destruction of society, and he must silence the destructive element of his personality before calamitous bombing schemes occur nationwide.

I was responding to the threat from the mainstream publishers rather than the destructive elements within the indie camp, but its the same problem really and needs the same solutions.

Others, like driving courses or flying aren't quite as fun as the ones that focus on the destructive elements of the game.

The game is so focused on these destructive elements that some of its other features suffer.

If all the levels are structured similarly to this demo and are of the same size, the destructive elements will provide numerous different ways of approaching the objective.

(Piet Mondrian's line, «I think the destructive element is too much neglected in art,» is one.)

The element fire will follow, and it's more challenging since it's a destructive element of the sculpture itself, and it's going to be translated into a constant deconstruction.

Allof these destructive elements can be traced to our enormous population.

Either way, long - term unemployment is one of the scariest prospects in anyone's life, and is one of the most destructive elements to one's career.