Sentence examples for capable of destruction from inspiring English sources

A correspondent on the 23rd suggested that perhaps the best deterrent would be the invention of a weapon capable of destruction of such terrible proportions that countries would have a hard time recruiting fighters.

It may well be that Vere, years after the event, remembers him as such, but for my purposes Billy is alive on stage as a man, fully rounded and equally capable of destruction and conciliation.

While today's terrorists use high-tech weapons and are certainly more capable of destruction than their predecessors, the mentality of hatred and intolerance has remained more or less the same.

At the arraignment, however diminished physically, however grizzled the beard, scrawny the neck, ponderous the bags beneath his eyes, Mr. Hussein was like a lame old tiger in a zoo, captive -- but still capable of destruction.

I focused inward and what I found was an elemental essence, one as equally capable of destruction as it was creation.

Lurking in many gardens are plants capable of terrible destruction.

A weapons-grade disease could also be used in missiles capable of vast destruction.

"For the administration just to say they have weapons capable of mass destruction, that is not enough," Mr. Ficklin said.

Shiva has three eyes, the third eye bestowing inward vision but capable of burning destruction when focused outward.

The jewel in Manchester United's crown looked capable of wreaking destruction, for all the Wearside attempts to crush him.

For the rest of his life he pressed for the peaceful use of atomic energy and spoke out against all weapons capable of mass destruction.