demolition

Examples of demolishing

demolishing

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

In particular, one becomes aware of a contrary impulse on the part of these individuals to study and save what they and others were demolishing.
This science/ nonscience distinction appears to be one of those binary systems that postmodernism enjoys establishing and then demolishing.
Press reports are replete with instances of courage and conviction of people who considered preservation of human feelings more important than demolishing religious institutions.
Demolishing the denials and the "intellectuals-are-absent" premise is the central and most satisfying accomplishment of this deeply satisfying book.
Both phenomena changed accepted ideas of citizenship, effectively demolishing elite liberal notions of the citizenry.
He tries to resurrect nationalist interpretations by demolishing self-made arguments which he claims come from 'revisionists'.
Demolishing plantations with unacceptably low yields would reduce total cane supplies and sugar production in the short run.
He even declared that if debate failed he would not mind 'demolishing' his party.
As many had expected, the experiment proved that the glacier moved fastest at the surface, with gradually decreasing velocity lower down, thus demolishing the extrusion-flow theory.
This could range from changing the windows, to adding a ' modern ' extension, to demolishing the existing - old-fashioned - building in order to replace it with a structure which demonstrated their taste.
Her two examples, and the general tone of her essay, are designed to create a 'straw man' that she is intent on not only kicking, but utterly demolishing.
Because that would throw up immediately the pattern that we are just demolishing.
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