Sentence examples for out to wreck from inspiring English sources

(Indeed, it barely stumbled even when the best sort of refrigerant turned out to wreck the ozone layer).

He refused to attend the signing of Begin's peace treaty with Egypt, fiercely opposing its promise of Palestinian autonomy, and set out to wreck it with so many Jewish settlements interspersed with the Palestinians that partition would be impossible.

He refused to attend the signing ceremony of his peace treaty with Egypt, fiercely opposing its promise of Palestinian autonomy, and set out to wreck it with so many Jewish settlements interspersed with the Palestinian population that partition would be impossible.

"If the legislature had deliberately set out to wreck the state's finances, I doubt it could have done a better job," Mr Sundquist lamented.A number of states have decided that, if getting money from the tobacco industry is nice, getting it in one lump sum would be even nicer.

In Iraq, the ruin had a different story line: here oil was tethered to state terrorism, and a displaced peasant thug from the town of Tikrit, fired up by the dreams of money and oil, set out to wreck his country and to plunge the world into endless discord.

But rather than launching a direct attack a political and public relations nonstarter since the DOJ was breathing down its neck the company stealthily set out to wreck competitors' currency.

The referendum is held in 2016, by which time the honeymoon period is well and truly over, and the Tories have installed an ultra anti-European leader, raring to campaign to pull us out and to wreck the rest of the Labour term in government.

He was scornful of the idea of a caviar-and-champagne party that the Murphys gave one evening at the Casino in Juan-les-Pins, and he set out quite deliberately to wreck it.

Reading the government's proposals, I imagined Conservative party researchers going through every aspect of a trade union's organisation and working out how to wreck it.

There's also what appears to be a reference to that great novel of isolation, Robinson Crusoe, in a key sequence where the man swims out to a wrecked ship to find what might be salvaged and returns to discover that a sad, bereft black man (Man Friday, we assume) has made off with all their possessions.

"You couldn't figure out a grosser way to wreck the planet than what they're doing.