Sentences with phrase «something destructive»

You can try to catch your cat or dog doing something destructive when you leave by pretending to leave and then waiting to see or hear what happens.

Often people think about divorce as something destructive and stressful.

Not being around its owner may turn it destructive.

The animal isn't able at that point to understand it did something destructive hours or even minutes before, she said.

While a lot of people use water bottles to spray their cats when they do something destructive, most veterinarians urge cat parents to avoid their use.

Her almost childlike, drumbeat belief in the power of school choice as a panacea, along with her unwillingness to protect college students from predatory for - profit schools and predatory loans, make her a destructive force in education..

(Adventures of Ideas, New York: The Free Press, 1967, 257) These discordant feelings, in themselves destructive and evil, make a contribution by producing «the positive feeling of a quick shift of aim from the tameness of outworn perfection to some other ideal with its freshness still upon it.»

No, what finally sinks Because of Winn - Dixie is apathy, some of it constructive — the closest Wang has ever come to avant - garde, Opal's fragmented memories of her deadbeat mom are wildly out of place but help to salvage a little poetry from the prose — but most of it destructive.

Call it destructive activism.

So maybe if that, in part, is what having a demon is, maybe if it's being taken over by something destructive, then possession is less of an anachronism, and more of an epidemic.»

Than is being backed by mysterious figures, headed up by Matai Shang (Mark Strong), who have given him the destructive power of the ninth ray.

Leah isn't a likable heroine, but Saylor makes her destructive arc understandable — from her naive quest for pleasure through the frightening downward spiral that follows.

As a result of botched implementation in places like New York, many parents, teachers and students are beginning to view the Common Core as something destructive instead of something that will actually help children succeed in college, career and life.

Recessions often bring about with them destructive portfolio losses and uncomfortable draw - downs, but avoiding or hedging them will help preserve your capital and can significantly boost portfolio performance.

After debarking surgery, dogs often end up with trainers because they redirect the behavior into something destructive.

We mitigate at the expense of our ability to adapt, which makes it a destructive folly.

Second, our direct actions, be they destructive overfishing or constructive fisheries management, have a huge impact on the future of coral reef ecosystems.

He contends that perfection excludes feelings of destructive discord, and he describes discord as «in itself destructive and evil» (AI 330).

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EPA does something destructive and contrary to the national interest deep on Friday afternoon.

These tendencies may make him destructive.

All of them destructive.

Thus the contribution to Beauty which can be supplied by Discord — in itself destructive and evil — is the positive feeling of a quick shift of aim from the tameness of outworn perfection to some other ideal with its freshness still upon it.

This inspection is not technical nor is it destructive.

Unless you keep them busy, they will find something else to entertain him (which can be something destructive).

While a lot of people use water bottles to spray their cats when they do something destructive, most veterinarians urge cat parents to avoid their use.

Not only is it destructive to threaten not to return (or to shut someone out as a consequence of walking way), it is often helpful to make the opposite clear.