When that didn't work, he set out to destroy him through espionage, propaganda, delaying tactics and corporate muscle.
Still, his opposition to the hydrogen bomb earned him powerful enemies, and his politics gave them the ammunition to destroy him.
What if his friend secretly wants to destroy him?
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Men are very eager to close with the enemy and to destroy him....When given a mission they accept it with enthusiasm, and even when losses to their platoon were inflicted the colored boys pressed on.
What top executive would bet his company the way Tom Watson did IBM in the early 1950s on mainframe computers or the way Bill Gates bet Microsoft in the mid-1990s on Windows if he knew failure would tempt prosecutors, politicians and bureaucrats to destroy him?
What top executive would bet his company the way Tom Watson did IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people ) in the early 1950s on mainframe computers, the way Bill Gates bet Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) in the mid-1990s on Windows, if he knew failure would tempt prosecutors, politicians and bureaucrats to destroy him?
Also, give him a near impossible one (whoever is Greek Finance Minister right now is going to have a torrid time of it) thus enabling him to destroy his own political career and thus nullify the threat.
They then convinced him to destroy Likud and form the Kadima party.
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The viewer is wholly engrossed in the fear whether Frodo can survive long enough to destroy the Ring - or whether it will destroy him.
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He has been the object of years of systematic and all-too-effective efforts mounted by the U.S. State Department and the CIA to discredit, if not destroy, him and his organization.
But the war was not waged to topple him, the announced goal of the war was to find and destroy weapons of mass destruction.
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This, object many like-minded countries, would allow someone like Saddam Hussein either to have his own judges exonerate him or to delay an investigation, kill or intimidate witnesses and destroy evidence.
Zar Gul sets out to destroy Yar Badshah and expose the criminal elements behind him.
And he deserved to be, not only for the cheating and the lies, but for the attempts to intimidate and destroy those who were seeking the truth about him.
He recognized the genius of Rupert Murdoch, while many others felt only disdain for him (and still do), believing him to be a predatory parvenu out to destroy "quality" journalism.
He ordered the police to destroy the presses of a university newspaper that had the temerity to criticise him.
"To put Jerry on the stand and have Matt come in and testify against him it would destroy any chance of an acquittal, " co-defense counsel Joe Amendola told reporters Friday night after his client was convicted of 45 of 48 sexual abuse charges against him.
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