Howells's tone has been left, on the whole, to journalists and essayists, from Joseph Mitchell to Jimmy Breslin — each in his own way following an essential intuition that the real subject of the city is commercial destruction, that it has no smooth continuous past, and that its monuments and streets and restaurants are as fugitive as the years.
The resulting effluent will then be taken to Bremen in Germany and Kotka in Finland for commercial destruction.
The primary threat is the commercial destruction of its habitat for timber.
Don't talk to Ms. McDonald about musical theater as an endangered form, for she will go on about how long it takes young composers to infiltrate popular consciousness, about how commercial producers cause destruction "by going with the safe things".
In coastal, estuarine, and riverine habitats, four principal processes of habitat degradation (residential and commercial development, mangrove destruction, river engineering, and pollution) jeopardize nearly one-third of threatened sharks and rays (29.8%, n = 54 of 181, Supplementary file 2B).
Illegal hunting (poaching) had decimated the populations of several species, including the Western gorilla (Gorilla gorilla), while commercial fishing and habitat destruction threatened countless others.
A second freighter, the Norwegian ship Taiko, is taking 500 tonnes of less dangerous, priority two chemicals from Latakia straight to Finland and then to Port Arthur in Texas, for destruction in commercial facilities.
Despite the potential of supercritical water oxidation (SCWO) as a viable technology for organic waste destruction, its commercial development has been hindered by the problems of corrosion and salt precipitation/solids buildup.
These and other projects in and around commercial centers targeted for destruction in 1992 have created thousands of jobs in recent years and will continue to do so.
The castle had stood on the main route from Bristol to London, and following its destruction a commercial avenue opened along Castle Street from the mediaeval city towards Old Market.
Without public-minded collectors, including artists themselves, museums simply would not exist, and the admirable stewardship of preserving works for generations to come would be lost to commercial enterprise and ultimate destruction.
