April 22 An earthquake destroys 200,000 buildings in Corinth.

Freezing does not destroy microbes present in food.

They tell him God will soon destroy the city because of the wickedness of the people.

The genital system of women who have been raped is severely damaged she may suffer from bleeding and urinary and bowel incontinence.

If he were to admit defeat, his presidency would be destroyed.

But that would destroy the useful together with the embarrassing or irrelevant.

To overthrow all those who steal from people, destroy their homes, health and environment

No catastrophic earthquake or tsunami has destroyed southern Europe s productive capacity.

Blair took over a strong economic legacy, and, to be scrupulously fair, he didn t wreck it.

The coup and the West s complacency about it (if not complicity in it) could devastate Egypt.

OK. That completely destroys the relationship between the business and the sidewalk, where the theoretical pedestrians are.

Many blamed nationalism as the ultimate evil that had almost destroyed Europe.

Now, we have to see the disease that is eating up our moral system and causing us to fail miserably as human beings.

A standard catalyst free spray destroys fewer than half the spores in the same amount of time.

Most would suggest that a period of financial retrenchment and slow GDP growth poses a serious threat to the legitimacy of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which is based on economic performance.

Every morning, again, after getting out of that tent your brain is completely wiped out.

The reason is simple a government default would destroy the credit system as we know it.

But that proposal was a trap that would have destroyed the possibility of an independent, contiguous Palestinian state.

We have seen time and time again how conflict and instability in developing countries have destroyed fragile social, environmental and economic progress.

Also, because conflict may destroy growth opportunities, it may be seen as costlier when growth is strong.

A catastrophic loss of electronic records could surely destroy the credibility of the dollar as the international medium of exchange.

Public production is inferior to private production for any number of reasons, not least because it destroys choice and variety.

Moreover, for a small country like ours, one single terrorist attack using weapons of mass destruction could destroy the entire population.

When released into a person s circulatory system, hemoglobin in these higher oxidation states eventually self destructs, damaging molecules in surrounding tissue.

While this is a useful technique, the manipulation can destroy the function of the gene, creating secondary effects and possibly calling into question the results of the experiment.

There's lots of mystery in the details, and there's some bad side effects, like it partially destroys the ozone layer and I'll get to that in a minute.

We cannot afford to sacrifice a generation, or, rather, risk creating a lost generation that could destroy Europe s social fabric and stability.

Companies often lay off a whole department of scientists to shift to a new product, destroying not only human capital, but also human lives.

We also need Africans who love Africa so much that they want to protect their countries their land from environmentally destructive processes.

This would devastate agriculture in the Middle East and North Africa, with crop yields falling by 15 35 , depending on the strength of carbon fertilization.

But the stakes are high another failure could reignite civil conflict and all but destroy any remaining hope for reconciliation.

Brussels There is no more depressing sight in politics than a leader who, desperate to cling to power, ruins his country in the process.

Remember that back in 1993, when the Clinton administration s analyses led it to seek to spend less and reduce the deficit, the Republicans said that that would destroy the economy, too.

But a corrupt judge deliberately destroys the moral foundation of a society and causes incalculable distress to individuals through abusing his office, while being referred to as Honourable'  .

They were often followed by outbreaks of infectious diseases, such as malaria and dengue, and flooding could destroy a country's crops, with a severe impact on sources of income and employment.

At first, this might seem like a crazy move Why intentionally destroy the only possible way out in case of defeat? Cortes allegedly did it to motivate his troops.

If Germany and France don t quickly resolve their differences and find a joint strategic answer to the crisis, they will damage themselves and Europe as a whole.

Bycatch destroys both predatory and prey species upon which complex ecosystems rely for survival, the long term consequences of which we are only now beginning to ascertain.

Those violations include the continuing extrajudicial killings, the killing or wounding of civilians, the random and excessive use of force, the continuing closures, the prevention of the movement of individuals and goods and, more serious still, the continuing colonization of our lands, the continuing expansion of illegal settlements and the construction of the wall.

Radiation therapy injures or destroys cells in the area being treated (the target tissue ) by damaging their genetic material, making it impossible for these cells to continue to grow and divide.

We must be acutely aware that all that has been built up by the thousands of relief workers and by hundreds of millions of dollars in donor contributions could be destroyed.

Belarus was against country specific resolutions, which destroyed the basis of international cooperation on human rights, encouraging mistrust and confrontation rather than dialogue and cooperation.

Even though there was no official guarantee, the US government s failure to come to the rescue could destroy confidence in government debt, and, by association, other financial paper as well.

This brings back a skepticism that has gone away recently, that superweeds and superpests could spread around the world, from biotechnology, that literally could destroy the world's food supply in very short order.

Moreover, institutions that thought they had transferred risk to the market realized that the demise of sponsored SIV s would damage their reputations irreversibly.