Sentence examples for attempt to destroy it from inspiring English sources

Jumbo was moved to the parking lot in 1979; it is missing its ends from an attempt to destroy it in 1946 using eight 500 pound bombs.

The damnable character of the 'bootlegger's' business should not close our eyes to the mischief which will surely follow any attempt to destroy it by unwarranted methods.

So of course the only way to write about a happy marriage is to have a malevolent outside force attempt to destroy it.

The writer and Union veteran Albion Tourgée worried that the way the public talked about the war obscured the simple truth that there would have been no call for "preservation of the Union unless some one was responsible for the attempt to destroy it".

If one is permitted to treat any group of people with special disfavor because of their race or the color of their skin, there is no limit to what one will force them to endure, and, since the entire race has been mysteriously indicted, no reason not to attempt to destroy it root and branch.

As leader of Leeds city council while Margaret Thatcher was at her most powerful – "she literally threw everything she could at local government in an attempt to destroy it" – he was able to create 30,000 jobs in the city, while reforming the way different public services worked together.

The bureaucracy was extensive enough to survive attempts to destroy it as the war in Europe drew to its close: Wachsmann has had more than ample material for his research.

The movement continued to expand despite the death of its founder and the government's attempts to destroy it.

The town was fortified and between 1696 and 1806 successfully resisted five attempts to destroy it.

"But the fact that there have been attempts to destroy it and replace it with a commercial building is not only sad but stupid.

In the most recent talk on Dec. 12, Selman led a panel that questioned whether students could learn about civic engagement by examining historical cases of attempts to destroy it.