Sentence examples for destruction which were from inspiring English sources
As national security adviser she championed the war in Iraq, arguing that the United States knew there were weapons of mass destruction, which were never found.
The terrible losses of World War I produced, as years went by and peace seemed no nearer, an ever-growing public demand that some method be found to prevent the renewal of the suffering and destruction which were now seen to be an inescapable part of modern war.
By September 2002, when the agencies were told to draft a National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, which were a key exhibit in Mr Bush's case for war, most of what they "knew" about weapons programmes pre-dated the first Gulf war in 1991.MI6 did have five agents inside Iraq, but they seem hardly to have improved its intelligence.
Our many My Lai-style massacres, the use of chemicals weapons like Agent Orange and napalm, and indiscriminate bombing produced mass death and destruction which were the consequence of a misguided belief that the US could not accede to Vietnamese independence under the leadership of Ho Chi Minh, despite acknowledgment he would easily win a fair election.
"The whole place was teetering on the edge of total chaos and destruction, which was exciting," Ms. Chung remembered.
Major threats include the illegal wildlife trade and habitat destruction, which are often undertaken or supported by corrupt officials, criminal gangs – even terrorist networks.
The bombings are certain to have consequences far greater than the immediate death and destruction, which is what a terrorist group would intend.
But the same argument could be made against fertility treatments that create excess embryos bound for destruction, which is the common practice in this country.
The intelligence on weapons of mass destruction, which was one of the Bush administration's main rationales for the invasion, proved to be devastatingly wrong.
As the sides swapped accusations, the state attorney general requested an investigation into the document destruction, which is now under way.
