The phrase "a course of destruction" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a path or process that leads to destruction or ruin, often in a metaphorical sense.
Example: "The company's reckless decisions set it on a course of destruction that ultimately led to its downfall."
Alternatives: "path of ruin" or "trajectory of devastation".
But when I did that I was on a course of destruction".
Tiamat, who had embarked on a course of destruction, was slain by Marduk, who cut her in two and used her carcass to create the universe.
(In the Assyrian version, Ashur is important). Tiamat, who had embarked on a course of destruction, was slain by Marduk, who cut her in two and used her carcass to create the universe.
She argues that we have all been thinking about the climate crisis the wrong way around: it's about capitalism – not carbon – the extreme anti-regulatory version that has seized global economies since the 1980s and has set us on a course of destruction and deepening inequality.
In particular, where individually negligible effects are involved, as is the case among "creeping environmental problems" such as pollution, "an agent, whether it be an individual or a unified collective, can be led down a course of destruction simply as a result of following its informed and perfectly understandable but intransitive preferences" (Andreou 2006, 96).
The Revenant reminds us of the violent foundational past that set us on a course of destruction.
The Shammat, who set the Shikastans on a course of self-destruction, self-destruct themselves and withdraw from the planet.
But ever since Mugabe's pact with Hunzvi and the "war veterans," he has steered a course of pure destruction.
Where was the loving family when time after time, year after year, incident after incident, it was as clear as it can be that this man was on a course of self destruction and nothing was being done?
A psychiatrist, cited by Army intelligence, speculated that Morgan was "driven along a course of self-destruction in order to satisfy his neurotic need for punishment".
While considering a run for president, during an October 2006 interview with The Conservative President 2008 website, Baldwin expressed his frustration with the Republican Party, which he believed was on a course of "self-destruction" and that was only kept afloat by the "absurd liberalism of Democrats".
