Sentences with phrase «into damaging behavior»

The desire to backslide into damaging behavior has been the subject of many powerful films, big and small.

Not exact matches

Liturgies can be revised so as to name the behaviors that abuse, damage and oppress people while inviting the community into new ways of relating to God, neighbors and self.

It might be disconcerting to hear your toddler crashing cars into each other or ramming them into block buildings, but unless she's hurting another child, driving into your baseboards or damaging furniture, this is not behavior to discourage.

To characterize the material behavior of the early stage damage, the researchers used a technique known as Depth Sensing Indentation (DSI) or «nanoindentation,» whereby a submicron probe is forced into the sample while the load and displacement are monitored.

Silence is about the struggle to reconcile long - held ideals with everyday moral behavior; about the threat of violence that's always present when deep - held belief systems, especially religious ones, come into conflict; and about the lasting damage inflicted by a global colonialist system that was just gearing up in the 1640s but that persists in many guises today.

If you plugged one too many things into a power strip, for example, that's negligent behavior and you'd be likely to have coverage for any damage caused.

Also, all of this unsupervised time and free reign can lead to undesirable behavior such as digging, tearing up landscaping, eating yard furniture / cushions, getting into garage stuff (chemicals), swimming in the pool, eating cable / wiring, tearing up landscape lighting or sprinkler systems, visiting the neighbor, damaging screens... you get the picture.

A direct carbon price elevates behaviors that result in fewer emissions above behaviors that result in more emissions — like searching out a car with better fuel efficiency — by including some approximate cost for climate damage into every decision.

A «polluter pays» tax (the costs of which should, via normal market mechanisms, tend to be distributed among the benificiaries of the polluting activity, including internationally, other things being equal) doesn't just provide revenue to deal with damages (or avoid them) but also produces a price signal which reshapes behaviors (once decided, even before going into effect) in suppliers, consumers, and investors — the supply and demand curves shift making alternatives more abundant, etc..

Punitive damages are put into place in order to punish a guilty party while injunctive relief damages are used to stop the destructive behavior or pollution that led to the victim's injuries.

Sometimes, whether it's the result of bad upbringing, unfortunate circumstances involving an unexpected stimulus or another dog's behavior, man's best friend can turn into a vicious beast capable of causing serious, potentially - fatal damage.

If you plugged one too many things into a power strip, for example, that's negligent behavior and you'd be likely to have coverage for any damage caused.

They give our children a better and happier childhood: Studies show that children who experience even the simple tradition of eating together as a family are less likely to smoke, drink, get into drugs and other damaging behaviors.