Sentence examples for less destroying from inspiring English sources

The price of this paper quickly collapsed to 15 cents on the dollar or less, destroying overnight twice as much value as Lehman's shareholders had seen evaporate over several months.These losses set off a spiral in money markets.

Most of the islands that marines had fought over and secured had been jungle horrors, infested by disease and rot, or sun-scorched coral outcroppings, use-less as real estate and, in strategic terms, scarcely worth conquering, much less destroying thousands of American lives to capture.

In effect, the attempt to gain independence from professional judges was more or less destroyed.

The son accomplishes much, but, through no fault of his own, the country is more or less destroyed.

The wax figures of Charles 11, Queen Anne and others have been more or less destroyed by water that flooded their storage place.

This tradition, disrupted and more or less destroyed by the arrival of the British, was replaced by a literature that imitated European models.

Last Thursday evening Franco de Benetetto, a 42-year-old Italian construction worker, more or less destroyed a temporary public sculpture by the internationally known artist Maurizio Cattelan.

More or less destroyed inside, they find no place for themselves or their experiences at home and Michael returns to Saigon to rescue Nick.

Ms. Collins is not a surfer but said she decided to become an environmental lawyer when, as a high school student in Marco Island, on Florida's west coast, she saw a beach nourishment project leave a beach she loved "more or less destroyed".

It's actually a complicated issue for me because while I detest Christianity and think ethics are bunk, I also realise Aids more or less destroyed the argument that we should all fuck like bunnies in the street and that anyone who says otherwise is a moron.

The dark web hasn't hurt Big Pharma, much less destroyed it.