Sentence examples for upon destroying from inspiring English sources

JOSEPH B. TREASTER A. This is an evil guy who is intent upon destroying us.

Riyadh seems set upon destroying the Houthis to prevent the continued expansion of Iranian power in the region.

The Bāṭinīyah were further labeled by the Sunnites as enemies of Islām, bent upon destroying the Sunnites' conception of the faith.

President Vladimir Putin has painted a picture of Russia as the world's last bastion against countries bent upon destroying traditional values in his annual state of the nation speech at the Kremlin.

Armed with his encyclopedic knowledge and equally ambitious interpretive eye, Kiernan sets out to demonstrate how empire building might have differing specific contexts, but one essential contour, or "double mission". Empire builders at home and abroad were intent upon destroying old societies and regenerating them by constructing new ones.

Having become the Mughal emperor in 1659, Aurengzeb, soon set himself upon destroying the Sultanates of Bijapur and Golconda, the latter famous for its diamond mines, as well as the burgeoning Maratha power of Shivaji.

Those people who believed in the Dutch Republic, which was the vast majority of the people, just as the majority of the population of England held to the rights of parliament, they have this scary scenario of their rights being violated, trampled upon, destroyed, eliminated, eradicated by big-time absolute rulers.

On Feb. 11, 1926, though, he returned to the public stage, warning in a radio broadcast from the Hotel Roosevelt in Manhattan that sometime after midnight on the 12th, a ball of fire would crash down upon New York City, destroying all within a 25-mile radius.

War is the greatest horror we inflict upon one another, destroying bodies and lives, inflicting untold pain, often on innocent bystanders.

"One Party government and political machines violate the very ideals our nation was founded upon and are destroying our once proud state," according to a statement posted on www.twopartysystem.org.org

These two accounts are difficult to reconcile, since in the former we have nature intruding upon and even destroying the human artifice, while in the latter we have art (techne) expanding upon and replacing everything natural or merely given.