It was decided in November that the meat should be destroyed or used in pet food.

BBC: Assembly told horsemeat fraud 'a real possibility'

Caroline Barnes was appealing a ruling that the animal, Lennox, should be destroyed because it is too dangerous.

BBC: Belfast woman loses appeal over Lennox the dog death

At the 2006 meeting of the World Health Assembly (WHA), virtually every country agreed, again, that the smallpox should be destroyed, but the U.S. and Russia objected, and no date was set to destroy the remaining stocks.

FORBES: It's time to destroy the U.S. smallpox reserves

They say trees should not be destroyed as part of park revamp plans.

BBC: Alexandra Park tree felling to stop a second time

Local fisherman Clifford Rosbotham was at the reservoir on Sunday morning and said the fish should be humanely destroyed.

BBC: dead fish

The bill that would have set the wheels in motion toward creation of a constitutional amendment failed Wednesday afternoon by a vote of 63-37, despite arguments by proponents that the flag is a unique symbol of American sovereignty and pride which should not be destroyed.

CNN: Flag desecration amendment fails in Senate

All of which is perhaps to point out that the terms of the debate about how to sanitise the bloated financial system have been set by a regulatory community whose legitimacy should perhaps have been destroyed but which still seems (amazingly?) to be in loco parentis.

BBC: If banks are treated as naughty kids...

This beautiful little cove that we had is now full of mud and muck and boats, and docks, that are now in the middle of the sludge, instead of where they should be, and actually columns from our neighbor's house that has pretty much been destroyed is now in our backyard.

NPR: In Tenn. Town, A Muddy Christmas For Some

Should some of the roughly 300 transformers that are the backbone of our electrical grid be damaged or destroyed, the interruption to the electrical grid will not be brief.

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