While the newly elected Iraqi government can't get its act together, the insurgents seem quite capable of organizing their efforts with great destructive effect on both civilians and the United States military.
In every talk, the narrative began with the challenges of his early career and ended with the triumph of the naledi discovery — one destined to have "profound destructive effects on the fields of archeology, paleoanthropology, and paleontology".
But remember that alchemy was a risky undertaking in more ways than one: much of it was banned (bearing in mind its potentially destructive effects on the economy if anyone did actually succeed in making it work), and persistent European offenders could find themselves on a gallows gilded and decked with tinsel, like some gruesome Christmas tree.
Rather than bemoaning humans' destructive effects on the earth, Mr. Singer has struggled to negotiate a détente, or even a partnership, between the built and the natural environment.
That is a key reason why we believe that technological progress should run its course, despite its short-run destructive effects on some.
"The E.P.A. has lost grip with economic reality and is having destructive effects on the nation's economic recovery," he said.
In the UK, the scheme has already allowed plans for supermarkets, service stations and housing developments to proceed, despite community objections to the destructive effects on their local environment.
These voices matter because, by casting self-serving imperialism as what it is not and denying its destructive effects on those upon which it was inflicted, they make neo-colonialism glamorous.
Its destructive effects on the European population led to a number of societal, political and religious upheavals, as personal freedom and social mobility improved among a shell-shocked, God-questioning population suddenly lacking rigid community leadership structures.
These critics are motivated by lively and serious concerns, some of them abstract, some practical: Garner's and Silverman's desire for lively literary debate, Miller's commitment to publishing criticism that people will actually read, and Brody's passionate worry that glib negativity can have destructive effects on the career of serious artists.
