It guaranteed the obligations of Irish banks to a reckless degree, wrecking the country's public finances.
Greens reject growth because they believe it cannot be sustained without wrecking the planet.
Even now, one country has shown that change is achievable without wrecking the model.
There are technologies that will give us the energy to power the world without wrecking the planet.
And purists believe that a glut of Twenty20 is wrecking the game's aesthetics.
Scanning readers' comments left on the article, I see I am taxed with being an English nationalist and deep-dyed Eurosceptic, bent on wrecking the EU. This puzzles me, sincerely.
It was Ireland's Trent Johnston who got the ball rolling by wrecking the Bangladesh top order with 3-20 after his skipper William Porterfield had won the toss and elected to field first.
Big bang is wrecking the old solidarity among Japan's bankers, their trade association is losing its power to maintain a united front, and yucho, at last, is beginning to find willing private-sector allies.
And the big incumbent fossil fuel firms insist that they are allowed to extract all their reserves even though the International Energy Agency warns that the fuels can't be burned without wrecking the planet.
Having thousands of fans on the pitch is not just costly in terms of insurance, it's also wrecking the playing surface which will now have to be replaced ahead of schedule in 2010 at a cost of 1m euro.
Whether wrecking the US-Saudi alliance is a good thing or a bad thing, it's unlikely that the current US government recognizes either that it has been destroyed, or that this has happened in large measure as a consequence of the administration's behavior.
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But the harm they do as a destroyer of habitat, by ripping up corals and sponges, and wrecking the nurseries of fish species that grow very slowly, seems out of proportion to any gain from scraping the ocean floor: one zoologist has compared it to cutting down virgin forests, full of rare species, to collect squirrels.
Last week, the government lost patience, telling creditor banks to take the wrecking ball to the Daewoo group.
But when the wrecking ball finally came for the exhibit, in the 1960s, it bounced right off the building's polymer walls.
Logano managed to finish third despite wrecking into the outside wall after hitting Hamlin, who spun Logano last week at Bristol and sparked a bitter post-race confrontation.
The wrecking of VOC vessels in Shetland was recorded by the Dutch company, and centuries later the shipwrecks were located by divers.
The torrent headed south, following the course of the Indus river, wrecking lives and infrastructure in the heart of Pakistan, Punjab province, and, by-mid week, in Sindh.
Private-equity firms have been accused of wrecking companies since the 1980s, if not before.
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In a letter to Xuan Zang, Shenzhen's Jing Bao vows to defend the temple against the wrecking ball.
Today in Hoyerswerda there is too much residential property and the wrecking ball demolished 7, 150 apartments between 1990 and 2008.
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In the 1940s Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia saved the building that would become New York City Center from the wrecking ball.
His next purchase was a 1920s Mediterranean designed by William Templeton Johnson, also in La Jolla, that was slated for the wrecking ball.
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What set the wrecking-ball swinging after decades of apathy and despair?
Many historical sites that have escaped the wrecking ball, however, have suffered from gaudy restorations catering to China's boom in domestic tourism, which can turn remote relics into fairground attractions almost overnight.
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But history shows a pattern: when attractions prove too expensive to maintain, score low on guest approval, lose sponsorship or have difficulty churning through high numbers of visitors, they are likely to meet the wrecking ball.
"The whole city was crumbling, and then we elected Ed Koch, " Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Friday during a ceremony marking the centennial of Grand Central Terminal, a once-crumbling edifice Koch helped save from the wrecking ball.
Still, for some watchers of telecom stocks, the earnings-wrecking fourth-quarter charges highlight a hitch in the logic that makes both dividend-yielding telecom carriers attractive investments in a low rate environment.
As the cars began wrecking all around Smith and Keselowski, Stewart slid through for the win, but Larson plowed into Keselowski and his car was sent airborne into the stands.
He denied his proposal was a wrecking amendment, claiming the measures in the bill would simply be implemented at a later date.
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