The phrase "a source of destruction" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that causes damage or harm, whether physically, emotionally, or metaphorically.
Example: "The unchecked pollution from the factory has become a source of destruction for the local ecosystem."
Alternatives: "a cause of devastation" or "a contributor to ruin".
Ms. Ross's photographs hint at a less elemental source of destruction, too.
In fact, the new technology may be not more convenient but less than Polaroid instant film cameras were, considering the printers and wires and other electronic gadgets now required, but at this one thing, the act of destruction, a source of unthinking popularity in our era of forgetfulness and extreme makeovers, digital performs all too well.
To the Bush administration, no real distinction exists between that war and the war on a source of weapons of mass destruction.
If disenchantment is a source of environmental problems and destruction, then the new animism can be regarded as attempting to re-enchant, and help to save, nature.
The metal contamination of soil may also be a source of landscape change, habitat destruction, soil and water contamination and land resource degradation.
Most of Mr. McDonagh's plays are ultimately about the importance of storytelling, as a source of salvation and, on occasion, destruction.
I am referring here to the religious clerics.We have to think hard about what we are facing... It's inconceivable that the thinking that we hold most sacred should cause the entire umma [Islamic world] to be a source of anxiety, danger, killing and destruction for the rest of the world.
"My work has dealt with a lot of tragedies around the world, and I was looking for a space of lamentation, of healing," said Mr. Jaar, who views the more than two million stones in the gabion baskets both as a symbol of man-made destruction and a source of refuge.
Even so, religious conservatives oppose using embryos as a source of the cells because that requires the destruction of what they deem a nascent form of life.
