"phase of destruction" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
It describes a particular stage or period of time in which destruction is occurring. Example: The city went through a phase of destruction during the war, with buildings being destroyed and people fleeing for their lives.
You would purge the planet of industrial civilisation, at the cost of billions of lives, only to discover that you have not invoked "a saner world" but just another phase of destruction.
Damaged muscle goes through the early phase of destruction (inflammatory phase), where affected cells including muscles, blood vessels, connective tissues and intramuscular nerve undergo necrosis [ 15].
Today, its sceptre and crown have fallen down and, in a phase of cynical destruction masquerading as "development", Mumbai has become a metaphor for urban blight.
Forests are now growing back in many temperate countries and the worst phase of habitat destruction may be over as efficiency demands shape better technologies and less polluting forms of energy.
The intermediate phase of bony destruction in TMJ lasts on average 6 months to 1 year [15].
The elevated levels of MMP-2, MMP-9, and MMP-8 in the SF of patients with mild TMJ-ID eventually reflect the active phase of TMJ destruction.
Within a few years, Fischer was presented with an unanticipated continuation of her series when another development, inserting itself into the city's skyline, brought about a second phase of infrastructural destruction.
Ban added that the most challenging phase of the destruction effort would begin in November, when OPCW and UN experts begin destroying Syria's estimated 1,000 tons of precursor chemicals and chemical weapons.
These findings suggest that pfp-dependent cytotoxicity is involved in the initiation of tissue damage in arthritis but also that one or several other pfp-independent mechanisms, possibly involving FasL/Fas, contribute to the early phase of joint destruction in CIA.
Others, however, might wince at the prospect of a re-run of the David Triesman years when his outspoken criticism of the Premier League set off another bitter phase of self-destruction.
So zooming out, we humans have a habit of going into phases of mass destruction, generally self-imposed to some extent or another.
