Sentence examples for destroy the memory from inspiring English sources

It would destroy the memory.

Cocker is trying to destroy the memory of the man he once was, as his forthcoming second solo album, Further Complications, cruelly reveals.

History has thus partly justified the melancholic words uttered by Napoleon in exile: "My real glory is not the forty battles I won, for Waterloo's defeat will destroy the memory of as many victories.…What nothing will destroy, what will live forever, is my Civil Code".

In a manner clearly reminiscent not only of his recipes with hallucinogenic drugs but of his naturalist approach in general, Porta maintains that such erotic images phantasmata are so potent that they may even be able to destroy the memory.

To try to destroy the memory of a staffer who met a violent death is really just gross.

"The hand of the government is behind this, it wants to destroy the memory of our sons," he charged.

If they are right, mapping these microbes could bring an end to generations of suffering from a disease that until recently scientists knew next to nothing about, a progressive, degenerative brain disease that the Alzheimer's Association predicts will destroy the memories of some 14 million Americans by 2050.

It's good we called it quits before we fully destroyed the memory of what we once had.

The Bahraini government was fooling only itself, because destroying an icon is not the same as destroying the memory, the people, or the movement that gave it meaning.

"Putting the hand through the glove," he explained, "has to do with destroying the memory, doing away with it".

After an Israeli soldier destroyed the memory card of Levin's camera, the soldier told him with a jocular smirk, "have a nice day".