Sentence examples for purposeful destruction from inspiring English sources

Around three quarters of films made during the silent era have been lost to fire, neglect or purposeful destruction.

One told me: "I'm convinced it's just an act of senseless, purposeful destruction... someone taking advantage of the situation.

The journey from paper collection to digital data has been a long one, with several cases of almost accidental and purposeful destruction.

The difference this time is in the purposeful destruction of the social and economic structure of the south, and the rest of the country.

Conflicts between herder and farmer communities have included the burning and razing of entire villages and purposeful destruction of one another's' livelihoods.

In "Dust to Dust," a jar of the remains of a Neolithic Chinese pot that Ai ground to powder evokes the purposeful destruction of historic artifacts during the Chinese Cultural Revolution.

Beyond Salomon, it is unclear whether the brokerage firms' inability to produce the e-mail messages requested by investigators is a result of a mistake or of purposeful document destruction.

It's a purposeful death.

Threats include loss of ephemeral materials, "silences" in historical documentation created by gaps in collecting, and the erasure of information through either lack of foresight, purposeful deletion, or accidental destruction.

For the purposes of this paper, a suicide attempt is defined as a purposeful self-inflicted non-fatal injury performed with intent to die [ 18], and NSSI is defined as deliberate, self-inflicted destruction of body tissue without suicidal intent and for purposes not socially sanctioned.

To the Editor: The use of hijacked airplanes in the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11 , 2001 clearly illustrated the immediate and massive destruction that can result from a well-orchestrated, long-planned, and purposeful terrorist act.