Sentence examples for destruction constitutes from inspiring English sources

The Bush administration's assertion that Iraq is developing weapons of mass destruction constitutes an admission that the trade sanctions, the purpose of which was precisely to prevent the development of such weapons, have failed.

Lynda Albertson, the chief executive of the Association for Research into Crimes against Art, said the images of the destruction constituted a brazen example of a calculated strategy by Isis to destroy people by denying and obliterating their own understanding of their history.

That said, the execution of this act points toward the fact that the event of destruction still constitutes a memorializing act, that it is still an exercise of free speech, that it is still telling us to never forget in an altogether different way: that the war we are still involved in is something that was made possible through strategic acts of forgetting.

"The deliberate destruction of cultural heritage constitutes a war crime.

"The deliberate destruction of cultural heritage constitutes a war crime," said Irina Bokova, head of the UN cultural agency Unesco, at the time.

The destruction of Islamic holy sites constitutes a violation of international humanitarian law and international law, especially the fourth Geneva convention (1949), which prohibits the destruction of civilian properties.

A 1988 congressional hearing heard that colourising old black-and-white films would constitute "destruction of our film heritage".

These findings further strengthen the diagnostic value of OPG profiles, indicating that the biomarker shows some specificity for the occurrence of periodontal bone destruction rather than constituting a "conventional" marker of periodontal inflammation.

In the USA, it is well established that only violence or destruction of a person's property constitutes a hate crime.

Ground shaking resulting from earthquake constitutes the major cause of destruction to the built-in environment around the world.

One is struck by the testimony that destruction of ancient burial grounds and ceremonial sites constitutes "irreparable injury to the Tribe and its members".