The phrase "a destructive form of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a type or method that causes harm or damage in a particular context.
Example: "The study revealed that a destructive form of competition can lead to negative outcomes for both individuals and organizations."
Alternatives: "a harmful type of" or "a damaging method of".
Letters from customers and embarrassing headlines have forced the last major British supermarket group to drop a destructive form of tuna fishing.
The natural development of semiarid scrublands is affected by cultivation of the land and by grazing by domestic animals, a destructive form of land use that can substantially alter vegetation.
Police will get new powers to evict offenders who seize unoccupied properties Britain's biggest tinned tuna brand has bowed to pressure from campaigners and agreed to end a destructive form of fishing.
A profile of the typical vegetation is shown in Figure 2. The natural development of semiarid scrublands is affected by cultivation of the land and by grazing by domestic animals, a destructive form of land use that can substantially alter vegetation.
Obama's plan is a destructive form of double taxation.
And devaluation--usually the result of Treasury proclamations in favor of a weaker greenback--is simply a destructive form of taxation that makes the money we hold less valuable.
It's a particularly destructive form of convenient blindness.
Seeing war as a tragically destructive form of information discovery makes Hanson think differently about peace.
It is a very destructive form of corrosion for engineering structure as it causes catastrophic failure.
The Obama administration has also signaled that it intends to regulate the disposal of coal ash from power plants and to continue efforts to limit mountaintop-removal coal mining, a particularly destructive form of extraction.
The Environmental Protection Agency last year revoked a permit for a planned, 2,278-acre West Virginia coal mine that encapsulated everything wrong with a particularly destructive form of strip mining known as mountaintop removal.
