What makes us cringe when we learn of destroyed art is this: When artwork is destroyed so is a part of our civilization.
In the past, when storms destroyed one island habitat, they would move to another.
They say they learned that difficult lesson in two of the last three years, when hail destroyed most of their crops.
The devastating effect of the bugs' appetite became apparent to farmers in 2010 when swarms destroyed fruit crops across several states in the mid-Atlantic region.
The leader of the ATP's 'New balls please' campaign came of age when he destroyed Pete Sampras to take the US Open title in 2000.
When he destroyed England in the 1995 World Cup semi-final it reaffirmed All Black dominance over England, and he was once again awesome when New Zealand beat England in the 1999 group stages.
But the costs hit home when ecosystem degradation translates into lost lives or illness, when scarcities bring supply chains to a grinding halt, when homes are destroyed or jobs lost, or when preventable damage from natural disasters overwhelms the budgets of insurers and governments.
They are more durable than before, since they are no longer destroyed when one partner leaves.
However, those belongings were destroyed when his storage unit was flooded several days ago.
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Mighty private-sector unions were destroyed when they tried to take on elected governments in the 1980s.
In South Dakota, a mobile home was destroyed when flames scorched 3, 000 acres in the Black Hills.
This means that they are more likely to be destroyed when the neutron beam is switched on.
Embryonic stem cells are controversial because the embryos are destroyed when the stem cells are removed for research.
That policy was made clear this week when city inspectors destroyed illegal buildings in both Jewish and Arab neighborhoods.
When pieces were destroyed, the workers lovingly collected the crumbs together, in the hope that restoration might one day be possible.
He also testified any notes he "probably" took about the 2002 incident may have been destroyed when he retired in 2009.
Nicholas Church, a modest 170-year-old building that had stood next to the World Trade Center and was destroyed when the towers fell.
Because the embryos are destroyed when the cells are extracted, the process is opposed by some conservatives who link it to abortion.
In 2005, Retired Marine Corporal Aaron Mankin was seriously wounded in Iraq when an IED destroyed his vehicle, fatally wounding six other Marines.
He has not gone back to school yet, because he says his clothes and his books were destroyed when his house was bulldozed.
That kind of startup gets destroyed when markets tighten up.
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It said Tepco staff at the plant were not trained to handle emergencies like the power shutdown that struck when the tsunami destroyed back-up generators, AP news agency reported.
Certainly, the amounts of money involved in the specific frauds identified at Enron were small compared to the amount of shareholder value that was ultimately destroyed when it plunged into bankruptcy.
Remember the accounting firm Arthur Andersen, convicted in 2002 of obstruction of justice when certain partners destroyed records of the auditing work they did for Enron as the energy giant was imploding?
When the mortars destroyed the Sarajevo Opera Hall, the cellist felt as if he were inside the building, as if the bricks and glass that once bound the structure together had become projectiles that sliced and pounded into him, shredding him beyond recognition.
And yes, smoke does come out of the SSD when it is physically destroyed!
When a city is destroyed, what can we say of the buildings that rise in its place?
My wife is holidaying in Phuket, staying at the Kabina Beach Hotel (now destroyed) when the first wave hit.
Staff Sergeant Robert Henline was deployed to Baghdad with the 82nd Airborne Division out of Fort Bragg when a massive explosion destroyed his Humvee, and he was the sole survivor and suffered terrible burns over more than a third of his body.
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Software engineer Colin Mackay was 32 when a mysterious autoimmune disease destroyed his kidneys in 2001.
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