One critic, apparently, opined that he overused swearwords, thus destroying the effect of a more sparing usage.
Or consider the swaths of the Amazon basin ploughed up for farming, thus destroying the homes of countless rainforest denizens.
Its popularity declined rapidly after dealers began adulterating its main ingredient with other substances, thus destroying its reputation among users.
America's mighty prosecutors can indict a corporation, thus destroying it before any accusation is aired in court.
Ms. Danes is Maria, his loyal, ambitious dresser, who, with the help of the king's mistress, ends the long ban on female performers, thus destroying Ned's career.
Your host will be tempted to hear this in the sing-song voice of a resentful eight-year-old, thus destroying any pretensions you have to sincerity.
And, if I read him right, he believes their activities could destroy originators and, in so doing, leave the redistributors with nothing left to redistribute, thus destroying themselves.
Appalled, the commissioner ordered that the words be washed off, before they could even be photographed, thus destroying one of the most important clues the Ripper ever left.
A state committed to blind obedience to a single doctrine will -- necessarily -- suppress free thought and freedom of association, thus destroying civil society.
In the resulting financial panic most European governments went off the gold standard and devalued their currencies, thus destroying the exchange system, with devastating effects upon trade.
Older Mesopotamian schools of painting had traditionally set figures along the bottom and drawn them to the top of the picture plane, thus destroying any suggestion of depth.
