What is "damaging"

Usage examples of "damaging".

The shock set him off-balance and he fell hard on the steps, damaging his coccyx and barrelling down to the wall below.

The second involved a slew of matters relevant to the Orion investigation, which Gordian was continuing to view as a separate affair for the present, although the close timing of the episodes in Florida and Brazil, and the fact that both would have damaging repercussions for the ISS program, made it impossible to avoid the possibility of some connection between them.

The fact that when Grumps showed her the job, he had managed to separate over two dozen seedlings without damaging a single one did nothing to help her mood.

It was Campomanes who had furnished Aranda with all the damaging matter against the Jesuits.

But as though these were not enough, today the Elves were confronted with something even more insidious, more damaging, perhaps more enduring: an appetite for self-delusion that seemed at times to be so innately human that Natil half wondered why it was not listed in the current textbooks as one of the attributes of psychological health.

Beyond doubt they would, and meantime he would confuse this Highland jackanapes, who seemed to have stumbled on some damaging truths.

We maintain, however, that today this localist position, although we admire and respect the spirit of some of its proponents, is both false and damaging.

To offer a contract and not make delivery would be terribly damaging .

The play was banned by the Tsar, who thought its portrait of the merchantry - even if it was based on a story from real life - might prove damaging to its relations with the Crown.

Her missiles ripped into it, damaging its impellers, laming it so that even a lumbering merchantship could outpace it.

Holymead murdering a lifelong friend, had to admit that the police had collected some damaging evidence.

They tend to be impulsive, particularly in activities that are potentially self damaging, such as shopping sprees, psychoactive substance abuse, reckless driving, casual sex, shoplifting, and binge eating.

Stanley Park, on the Bay of Georgia front of Vancouver, one of its damaging centers, was recorded on the seismograph at the University of British Columbia.

The Chief Dietitian will be accommodated on the casualty deck, it requires no special life-support and it will not risk damaging your light-gravity furniture and equipment by going forward, unless at your express invitation.

Turning off the huge diesel without letting it idle in neutral for several minutes was a good way to damage it, and damaging the bulldozer was one of the last things he wanted to do.