After all, the only thing a missile defense system is likely to destroy is the Antiballistic Missile Treaty, a cornerstone of nuclear nonproliferation since President Nixon was in the White House.
Here the most plausible suggestion is that, without intervention from powerful and good ETI, we are likely to destroy ourselves through nuclear war.
In fact, ending subsidies, if it leads to the modernization of agriculture in the developing world, is likely to destroy the very sorts of communities the pro-trade left seeks to support.
Martin Drury, former head of Britain's National Trust and a highly respected voice in international conservation, told the Observer that the airport and hotel scheme were likely to destroy much of St Helena's time-capsule character.
If it is not checked in New York and New Jersey, the beetle is likely to destroy half the trees in the city and in both states within 10 years, some experts say.
As Paul Mason argues in PostCapitalism, the impacts of information technology go way beyond simple automation: they are likely to destroy the very basis of the market economy, and the relationship between work and wages.
Dry etching is a method in which a gaseous chemical etching agent is used to perform non-isotropic etching, but it is likely to destroy the surface and form defects. Wet etching uses a chemical solution to etch the surface of a semiconductor isotropically; the etching rate is a function of the temperature and concentration of the solution.
The brief also says that forcing private lenders to take a bigger than expected haircut on their loans to Greece (in reality they could end up losing 75% of their loans) is likely to destroy confidence among private investors, making it impossible for Athens to borrow from the financial markets for the foreseeable future.
On the specific question of whether pay packages contribute to risk, it should by now be quite obvious that a financial institution that pays its executives with a 'heads I win, tails you lose' pay package is likely to destroy itself.
Simply running the standard protocol at a lower temperature is likely to destroy this balance and prevent the system from overcoming even trivially small barriers, thus drastically slowing the dynamics.
