Sentence examples for destruction to make from inspiring English sources

They are dismayed that the public artwork is facing destruction to make way for a £100m shopping centre.

Parker has lived in a condemned house, a dwelling due for destruction to make way for a motorway.

Particularly noteworthy is Valentin Rasputin's elegiac novel Proshchaniye s Matyoroy (1976; Farewell to Matyora) about a village faced with destruction to make room for a hydroelectric plant.

One of the fiercest property battles is over Vila Autódromo, the settlement slated for destruction to make way for the Olympic Park.

"They were marked 'for destruction' to make way for the so-called Great Road between the Triumphal Arch and the Great Hall.

For example, in 1981 the owner of the former Mount Neboh Synagogue at 130 West 79th Street sought hardship status, and ultimately the commission approved its destruction to make way for a 19-story apartment building.

For Sebald, to conjure an aesthetic effect from the remnants of such destruction is to make "the real horrors of the time disappear through the artifice of abstraction".

So the Obama campaign has turned to the politics of personal destruction, attempting to make a campaign issue out of John McCain's inability to remember how many houses he has.

He said the security experts oversaw the destruction "just to make sure there was nothing in the mangled bits of metal which could possibly be of any interest to passing Chinese agents".

That would be the best way to redeem the destruction, and to make sure the souls who needlessly lost their lives did not die completely in vain.

Conservationists are increasingly wondering whether the wholesale destruction of rainforests to make margarine is the most striking of all examples of environmental lunacy.