David Miliband said he wanted to spend more time with his family, and not to be the focus of "perpetual, distracting and destructive attempts to find division" within Labour.
In his novels and journalism, V. S. Naipaul dissected both the destructive attempts of post-colonial societies to remake themselves and the privileged Westerners who encouraged their fantasies.
I genuinely fear perpetual, distracting and destructive attempts to find division where there is none and splits where they don't exist, all to the detriment of the party's cause".
"We view as destructive attempts to politicise sporting events, which since ancient times have played a paramount role in improving understanding and agreement between nations," the statement said.
In a letter to his constituency party chairman, Mr Miliband said if he remained part of his brother's shadow ministerial team, he feared "perpetual, distracting and destructive attempts to find division where there is none and splits where they don't exist".
It is maddening to watch Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Jerry Brown, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer and others appropriately rail against destructive attempts to undo progress enacted in the past eight years, but they never, to my mind, advocate changing the undemocratic manner we elect presidents.
In December, 1807, at Jefferson's insistence, Congress passed the Embargo Act, a drastic — and absurdly self-destructive — attempt to punish Britain for seizing American merchant ships; the act cut off all U.S. exports to any nation.
In my early 20's, I made a ton of money at an Internet start-up -- my first job out of college -- and when the web bubble burst and I was left unemployed, I ran through about twenty thousand dollars in a couple months, all in a self-destructive attempt to run away from myself.
Timur, in a series of destructive campaigns, attempted later in the 14th century to restore their empire.
At a press conference in No 10 following talks with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Mrs May said the events were "destructive" to attempts for a lasting peace, and an inquiry into what happened was paramount.
