Sentences with phrase «gradual destruction of»

Tooth resorption is the gradual destruction of a tooth or teeth caused by cells called odontoclasts.

The offending dog is most likely as anxious and stressed as the owner, precipitating the gradual destruction of carpet and hardwood flooring.

CHD is a developmental disease of the bones in which the head of the thigh bone poorly fits the hip socket, causing damage to the cartilage, gradual destruction of the joint, pain and swelling.

There results a gradual destruction of the self as a living integrated being, first in imagination and then in behavior, such as in the psychotic's withdrawal.

In cases of gradual destruction of sight, there is a regressive reorganization of the perceptual field at more and more primitive levels.

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By shifting our attention from the now completely irrelevant and anachronistic politics of nationalism and military power to the problems of the human species and the still inchoate politics of human ecology we shall be killing two birds with one stone — reducing the threat of sudden destruction by scientific war and at the same time reducing the threat of a more gradual biological disaster.

Its gradual destruction not only of human communities but also of the environment will cause it to fail.

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Although destruction is more gradual on the continents, the same forces plundering Hawaii are likely to deprive the planet of as many as half its life - forms within just a few thousand years.

Rescue Me [FX, Tuesdays, 10 p.m.] chronicles the gradual self - destruction of New York firefighter Tommy Gavin [Denis Leary] ever since his cousin Jimmy [James McCaffery] died in action helping to evacuate the Twin Towers.

Whether your dog's barking or destruction begins 30 seconds, five minutes, or 15 minutes after you've left home, this is the threshold of time over which you must never leave your dog alone when you first begin training through gradual desensitization.

Unique to the canine stifle, cranial cruciate ligament disease appears to involve a gradual degeneration and destruction of the ligament itself.

This latter group has the latent autoimmune diabetes of adults (LADA) form of type 1 diabetes, which is characterized by gradual β - cell destruction over months or years and is not associated with obesity (75).

During combat, damage to the girls is revealed through the gradual destruction and removal of their shinobi outfits.

Rather than perceiving the «destruction» of these portraits as a form of urban decay, Machen sees an evolution taking place; sometimes quick but more often a slow and gradual metamorphosis, wherein the individual subject solicits a variety of responses and actions from anonymous sources.

The widespread scarcity, gradual destruction and aggravated pollution of freshwater resources in many world regions, along with the progressive encroachment of incompatible activities, demand integrated water resources planning and management.

He states in interviews that the KGB's «active measures» against the west had as a principal component the destruction of the west's self confidence by way of introducing false information about western achievements and a gradual denigration of traditional morality.

Damage or loss caused because of nuclear perils, war, invasion, act of foreign enemy, hostilities, pollution, contamination, deliberate misconduct or negligence, willful property destruction, normal wear and tear, gradual deterioration and similar such gradually developing flaws are all excluded under this plan.