The phrase "destructive means" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to methods or tools that cause damage or harm, often in a context discussing negative impacts or consequences.
Example: "The organization was criticized for using destructive means to achieve its goals, which ultimately harmed the community."
Alternatives: "harmful methods" or "damaging techniques."
King critiqued communism's ethical relativism, which allowed evil and destructive means to justify an idealistic end.
Such measurements were subsequently correlated with cellularity data obtained utilizing current-standard destructive means.
The Army Corps of Engineers has relied too much on levees instead of retention reservoirs and less environmentally destructive means of flood reduction like reforestation or erosion control.
*On violence in the Ivory Coast: "Violence never comes from God, never helps bring anything good, but is a destructive means and not the path to escape difficulties".
The street protests that began the Arab Spring have become destructive means for each side to assert its own primacy on the national stage.
It rests with identifiable individuals and specific groups that have chosen destructive means to achieve what are rarely if ever laudable ends.
This government has done a lot of destructive, mean-spirited things in its time, but its aid spending is not one of them.
Lubricant bubbles achieve the highest jet velocity while refrigerant bubbles having the lowest jet velocity are not considered as a destructive mean of cavitation for scroll expander systems.
The ultrasonic techniques provide a rapid, non-destructive means for evaluating compacts in formulation development and manufacturing.
Determined to get away from her working-class Belfast roots, she uses funds acquired by dubious and self-destructive means to buy musical equipment.
Transmission Raman spectroscopy is a potent new tool for content uniformity testing in pharmaceutical manufacturing enabling rapid bulk sampling of a material by non-destructive means.
