Sentences with phrase «more destructive»

Typically the undergrad students party more and are more destructive because this is the first time in their life they are un-managed (meaning no parents around).

Food waste makes up about 20 percent of our waste stream, and when it's bagged and tossed in the landfill it leaks methane, a gas that is 21 times more destructive to the ozone than carbon dioxide, according to the EPA.

Discordant drinking couples may use more destructive conflict strategies (e.g., yelling and insults) or more negative regulation strategies (e.g., threats and punishment) to attempt to reduce partner drinking (Rodriguez, Dibello, & Wickham, 2016).

Schedule a risk free appointment and we can work together to stop this negative cycle before it becomes more destructive and painful.

As a result, couples may be less - able to resolve their disagreements in constructive ways, and instead engage in more destructive behaviors such as avoidance or heightened displays of anger (Cummings & Davies, 2010).

Nothing's more destructive than being reminded of past failures.

Schedule an appointment and we can work together to stop this negative cycle before it becomes more destructive and painful.

The love most of us will have tasted early on was often confused with other, more destructive dynamics: feelings of wanting to help an adult who was out of control, of being deprived of a parent's warmth or scared of his anger, of not feeling secure enough to communicate our wishes.

He or she struggles with how to make sense of a world where they are supposed to be working on their relationship and at the same time things are said which couldn't feel more destructive.

All marriages experience these cycles at times but for some it is more destructive than for others.

PI's Ruben Cantu's blog, featured in AlterNet, explores how climate change is even more destructive to communities that already face adverse experiences:

Worse, it was actually causing more destructive behavior.

Making hurtful or negative comments about your spouse behind his or her back can be upsetting to your teen and even more destructive to your family dynamic.

You might as well shake things up in a constructive way because your recent behavior indicates that you will otherwise probably be blowing up the relationship through more destructive means..

This can cause unresolved issues, which in turn, exacerbates differences that can lead to more destructive communication tendencies.

But the internet still transformed the economy (though the financial services industry less so) and the subsequent mortgage boom and bust were far more destructive, all things considered.

What he means is that the attackers could have installed malware that more invasively violated user privacy or used victims to launch even more destructive attacks.

The employment of tactical nuclear weapons, which allow for the precise targeting, could be justified as a measure to halt the imminent attack, which, if occurring, would require much more destructive a response.

While this year's storms Hermine and Matthew brought an end to the state's decade - long hurricane drought, they easily could have been stronger or cut a more destructive path.

One thing that a broad policy will provide you with is coverage for some of the less common but more destructive weather options, such as hurricanes and tornadoes.

There are many different kinds of TX natural hazards that can affect your Beaumont property, and some of them are going to be more destructive than others.

You're looking at winds exceeding 75 miles per hour, which means that they can be rather destructive, but what's more is that they usually exceed the 75 mph mark and become even more destructive, taking roofs off of houses, tearing down walls, and even rendering the mighty Deerfield Beach apartment building helpless.

In layman's terms, the heavier the vehicle OR the higher the speed, the more destructive force when the vehicle hits something.

Initial forecasts plotted a far more destructive path for the storm than was actually the case.

Pro Bono Students in Edmonton, Toronto, Montreal and Ottawa now assist low - income taxpayers in Tax Court.For many Canadians, few things are more destructive emotionally or financially than a legal dispute.

And as Avinash observes, while the big public mistakes can have disastrous consequences, the small, everyday, invisible gaffes can be as or even more destructive:

Colonial's Philadelphia personal injury lawyers said the suit seeks an excess of $ 150,000 in damages and punitive damages to penalize and prevent AAA Hellenic in engaging in any more destructive conduct.

There's also the very real risk of your new legal engineer moving away to a competitor — there are few things more destructive to a project than the departure of a key stakeholder.

The attacks become even more destructive because of a lack of understanding by the public about our system of government.

With weather and climate disasters becoming more destructive and costlier than ever, accurate and reliable weather forecasting is absolutely critical to protect life and property.

The impacts of global climate change have been front and center this year: More destructive storms.

Coupled with technological advances in fishing, the new industry - friendly policies opened up the Firth of Clyde to the more destructive fishing practices.

The news has gone from bad to worse to «very concerning» for Australia's Great Barrier Reef, with the world's largest reef system suffering through a second consecutive coral bleaching event that is proving even more destructive than first predicted.

The fossil fuel pollution that's driving global climate change is making weather disasters more destructive.

How Does Climate Change Make Superstorms Like Sandy More Destructive?

The scenario painted in the film «The Day After Tomorrow» seems extremely unlikely, even to most climate change advocates, but one could easily make a far more convincing version, based not on the effects of climate change, but the efforts of some crackpot to «save the world» from same by implementing some well meaning scheme that could all too easily lead to a disaster far more immediate and possibly far more destructive than anything a few degrees of temperature rise could produce.

When it comes to climate change, Pielke adds that his study «provides strong counter-evidence to claims found in the scientific literature that the atmospheric environment that spawns tornadoes has intensified,» leading to more destructive storms.

We are committed to significant warming no matter what happens, and if this warming is going to spark stronger or more destructive hurricanes on average, the most immediate policy prescription ought instead to be investing in better hurricane preparedness (although of course there are many other valid reasons to cap emissions).

In his accompanying book, An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It (Rodale Books, May 2006), Gore noted a July 31, 2005, study by MIT climatologist Kerry Emanuel that Gore said «supported the scientific consensus that global warming is making hurricanes more powerful and more destructive» [An Inconvenient Truth, p. 92].

Droughts, floods, more destructive storms, weird weather of all sorts — just look out your window.

We can speculate, of course, that there might be other perils — a horrible pandemic; out - of - control artificial intelligence; an all - out nuclear war; an asteroid; unforeseen consequences of genetic modification — that could prove even more destructive.

As President Obama calls for greater investments in alternatives, the biggest energy companies are doubling down on riskier, more destructive oil sources

Methane being more destructive than CO2 in the atmosphere.

I am sure we agree that, assuming all other things are equal, a hurricane with higher wind speeds is more destructive than a hurricane with lesser wind speeds.

Bromine compounds are roughly an order of magnitude more destructive of the ozone layer.

In other words, the biggest storms are not only becoming more frequent, they are getting bigger, stronger and more destructive.

As hurricanes become more destructive each year, scientists are looking to climate change for explanations.

No matter how distastefull or dangerous a persons views are, the dismissal of views based on their position in society is much more dangerous and much more destructive of democratic governance.

There is debate within climate science about whether North Atlantic hurricanes are on the increase, or whether the ones that make a landfall are simply more destructive.

Climate change has long been predicted to make tropical storms more destructive, as higher sea surface temperatures fuel faster winds and heavier rainfall.