Drainage of swamps and river bottoms, removal of snags, and other human activities have been detrimental to this species as they have been to wood ducks.
Since the Carolina wren feeds mostly on or near the ground, deep snow is detrimental to survival.
It also adds one more to the long list of detrimental effects traceable to intoxicating beverages.
With the possible exception of opium, tobacco is by far the most detrimental narcotic used by man.
We know of persons who would not sleep in a room in which a number of plants were growing, giving as the reason that the amount of carbonic acid gas given off by the plants, is detrimental to health.
Even when soothsaying and magic were connected with higher religions than the fetichism of the Haytian negro, they were still detrimental in no ordinary degree.
Whatever is manifestly detrimental to his best life, whatever he feels to be likely to taint the purity of his mind or lower his spiritual vitality, should be put under the "ban," should be resolutely avoided in all ordinary cases.
This is detrimental in all such cases where the lines in the centre are open or likely to be forced open at any time.
The doubled pawn, which White could force by exchanging the Bishops, is in no way detrimental to Black's game.
Unusual shocks produce unusual disturbances; and all disturbances are highly detrimental to business.
I realize perfectly how the sudden increase in the gold supply of this country could produce an inflation that might, in the end, prove highly detrimental to general business.
We can say that, so far as our Catholic children are concerned, the workings of our Public School system have proved, and do prove, highly detrimental to their faith and morals.
In obedience to a growing perception that dominion and exploitation are incompatible with and detrimental to our system of government, we fought in good faith to gain self-determination for an alien people.
Second: Because it is impracticable, unjust, and detrimental to development and ennoblement of the human race, which is the manifest object of human creation.
The exercise of will brings on a hypnotic state, detrimental to health and integrity of thought.
Will-power detrimental Human will-power is not Science.
The intense colds were however detrimental to us in another way.
The Indians retired from the conference apparently satisfied, but this business was in the end productive of much inconvenience to us, and proved very detrimental to the progress of the Expedition.
The white sugar is detrimental to health, because it has become inorganic through the refining process.
Allopathy regards these violent activities of vital force asdetrimental and harmful in themselves.
The fact is that the detrimental consequences of blockade to neutrals stand in the same category as the many other detrimental consequences of war to neutrals.
On the other hand, a neutral may not exercise the same discretion regarding a violation of neutrality committed by one belligerent and detrimental to the other.
The question has been raised in what way blockade, which vests a belligerent with a certain jurisdiction over neutral vessels and which has detrimental consequences for neutral trade, could be justified.
Since neutrality is an attitude of impartiality, it excludes such assistance and succour to one of the belligerents as is detrimental to the other, and, further, such injuries to the one as benefit the other.
Mr. Brumley went on slowly, affected to botanize, watched the man out of sight and immediately made a dash for the pine-woods, taking the barbed wire in a manner extremely detrimental to his left trouser leg.
There existed a combination of vice and superstition which is eminently prejudicial to the nobility, though not equally detrimental to the happiness, of man.
Asceticism, proclaiming war upon human nature, produced a revulsion towards its extreme opposite, and even when it was observed it was frequentlydetrimental to purity of mind.
The death-rate may be reduced, then, without detrimental effects upon the birth-rate.
Binnie Dunlop, by quoting paragraphs without their full context, appear to lend support to views which by implication are, to some extent, detrimental to my own.
It is considered highly detrimental to the tone of a piano to use it during damp or wet weather; so, on a rainy day, the instrument is locked up and the key carefully concealed by its owner.
It was about this time, however, that Pinkerton began to make inquiries and the result was in every way detrimental to the "Prince's" plans for domestication.
Perhaps there is no passage of Scripture more constantly misunderstood than these simple words; and certainly there is no misunderstanding of Scripture which has exercised a more detrimental influence on the life and development of the church.
The intense colds, were, however, detrimental to us in another way.
There's a type plain as day, and salutary to mankind, if detrimental to women!
Flora Montolieu is a great anxiety, a great difficulty, little detrimental that she is!
