The senior clergyman at one of the mosques, Sayed Ali Fadhil al-Gorouvi, when asked what caused the destruction, referred vaguely to "robbers who stole gold" from the shrine.
The town that supposedly had to be destroyed in Vietnam was Ben Tre, and a report in the Times, on March 15 , 1968 following up on its destruction, referred to it as "a city of 34,000".
Under federal law, the term "weapon of mass destruction" refers to virtually any explosive charge aimed at harming people.
In an interview in her office on Friday, Mr. Bush's national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, said "the Iraqis didn't just agree in '91 to have inspections, they agreed not to have weapons of mass destruction," referring to the agreements struck at the end of the Persian Gulf war.
With regard to record prices for a barrel of crude and a gallon of gas, demand destruction refers to drivers not driving, planes not flying, trucks not trucking and the hit to disposable income from the pain being suffered by consumers everywhere.
My bags were taken behind the glassed-in nurse's station and checked for potential weapons of self-destruction referred to as "sharps" — razors, scissors, mirrors — which were taken away until your departure.
(Sisario) ANNIE LENNOX (Tomorrow) The title of her new album, "Songs of Mass Destruction" (Arista), refers not to bombs but to the fallout from another kind of war.
But he emphatically argues "sadly this happens so often in western media and also in some Arab media, where you take one street or one person or one aspect and that stands for all of culture, in focusing on Al Mutanabbi we forget the larger context in what conditions made the destruction possible" referring to the US military occupation and devolving of the Iraqi state.
Jon Pareles compared the concept album to Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon (1973) and Guns N' Roses Appetite for Destruction (1987), referring to it as "a cause without a rebellion".
Stage 3 referred to destruction of the lobular architecture with marked parenchymal loss and sclerosis: the outlines of lobules were not clear.
"Now is a good time for creative destruction," he said, referring to the concept of established companies' being replaced by more innovative competitors.
