History is hardly littered with good examples of destruction leading smoothly to regeneration.
Shakespeare's tragedies offer poignant examples of destruction, sterility and cosmic cataclysm.
Virtually everything humanity constructs provides an example of habitat destruction.
The scheme, they said, rode roughshod over the traditional Hutong neighbourhoods and was an "unfortunate example of the destruction of Beijing old town".
Justice William O. Douglas, in his recent book "My Wilderness: East to Katahdin," has told of an example of ecological destruction wrought by the Forest Service in the Bridger National Forest, in Wyoming.
The sentiment was echoed by former Labour deputy leader John Prescott who tweeted: Labour culture secretary Maria Eagle said the move was an example of "mindless destruction" caused by culture secretary John Whittingdale's "Obsession with diminishing the BBC".
Tambora, which blew its top on April 10 and 11, 1815, is an example of the destruction volcanoes can wreak, he said, possibly made worse today by denser populations and our reliance on air transport.
Abraham van Linge's windows painted in 1630 to 1640 for Christ Church Cathedral at Oxford are an excellent example of the destruction of the lead line as an integral part of the design.
Bombs fired from Gaza that land near Jerusalem are hailed by Alqassam as showing the ability of its forces to take the fight to the enemy, while the Israeli military feed includes the news as an example of wanton destruction.
Senator Orrin G. Hatch, the Utah Republican who is chairman of the committee, said the effort by the Democrats amounted to an unfair caricature of Mr. Olson, whom he characterized as "an incredibly accomplished person," and he lamented what he said was the latest example of personal destruction in Senate politics.
