The Spanish, ousted by the British after 150 years, destroyed most of the original buildings.
The lawyers had kept secret more than a dozen pieces of favorable evidence over 15 years, destroying some.
Harbin has been battling air pollution for years, destroying hundreds of smaller boilers, banning the use of high-sulfur coal, and adopting cleaner fuel standards for cars.
The guerrillas have attacked the town three times in recent years, destroying the municipal headquarters in their first assault, in 1997.
Mark Lynas, an author and activist who spent years destroying GM crops, shocked the environmentalist world in 2013 when he admitted he had been wrong about the technology and now believed it was a force for good.
That sounds sensible: the danger is that a hasty election, held before political parties not based on militias can organise themselves, could hand Liberia to the butchers who have already spent years destroying it.
She outlived Gustav Mahler by 50 years, destroying all but one of her letters to him, and suppressing or falsifying many of his to her for fear of being judged too harshly by posterity.
Like so many Australians, my belief in this country is bigger than the poisonous politics that have consumed it in recent years, destroying our national self-confidence and damaging our prospects for the future.
Or they would, if they hadn't spent years destroying the trust of their users by treating them like numbers on a spreadsheet.
Soldiers in Indian-administered Kashmir are building a temporary bridge, after the region's worst floods for 50 years destroyed a number of key crossings.
