life-destroying

McQueen assumed it was just an exaggerated form of promiscuity, the state of perpetual horniness in which most men find themselves in their teens and 20s -- at worst, a lapse of self-control as opposed to a life-destroying compulsion.

Marshall Fine: Director Steve McQueen Discusses Shame and Sex Addiction Marshall Fine 2011

I was suggesting that rather than illustrating the racism and life-destroying nature of America's health care system, it was illustrating a case of a doctor proposing desperate, expensive, unproven treatment in a hopeless case.

In which Max discovers a tic, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

An equally loaded question the other way would be “do you want doctors to be protected from the life-destroying expensive consequences of their mistakes”.

Discourse.net: Ros-Lehtinen's Almost-Fair Health Care Survey 2009

Without a quiver, a member of the capitalist-group will run tens of thousands of pitiful child-laborers through his life-destroying cotton factories, and weep maudlin and Constitutional tears over one scab hit in the back with a brick.

THE SCAB 2010

But we should be treating kids and life-destroying antisocial behavior separately, not assumptively together, and with a level of respect that both surely deserve.

ASBO Nation Rozalind Dineen 2010

General Origen Vandenburgh, of the New York State Militia, had been conducting tests of his own line of volley guns, and envisioned what he called “their life-destroying efficiency at every point.”

The Gun C. J. Chivers 2010

Common sense would suggest that a life-destroying flood of saltwater would prevent life from returning.

BCSE critiques "Explore Evolution" - The Panda's Thumb 2010

To speak plainly and truthfully about the world "" to say, for instance, that the Bible and the Koran both contain mountains of life-destroying gibberish "" is antithetical to tolerance as moderates currently conceive it.

Printing: The Enemy in the "War on Terror is Us, We Continue to Fight at Our Own Peril 2009

And, it has long been a dead-end street for those captured or left behind on foreign soil -- for those who return from battlefields maimed both mentally and physically, and for those who are innocent victims of malicious life-destroying experiments who have no chance of the extent of their injuries being recognized and are refused the necessary health care.

It's Time for the Madness to Stop 2009

To speak plainly and truthfully about the world "" to say, for instance, that the Bible and the Koran both contain mountains of life-destroying gibberish "" is antithetical to tolerance as moderates currently conceive it.

The Enemy in the "War on Terror is Us, We Continue to Fight at Our Own Peril 2009