Land development and agriculture are just two uses of natural resources that change and destroy environments that birds need.

VOA: special.2009.05.12

But that does not include costs like the tons of flowers that growers in Kenya and Israel had to destroy.

VOA: special.2010.04.23

NASA was worried that the extra water could destroy the power supply needed for the spacecraft's return to Earth.

VOA: special.2009.06.24

She soon found evidence that Standard Oil had been using unfair and illegal methods to destroy other oil companies.

VOA: special.2010.04.25

Ida Tarbell charged that Standard Oil was using illegal methods to hurt or destroy smaller oil companies.

VOA: special.2010.04.25

But people of all opinions feared that the president was trying to destroy the careful system of checks and balances in the federal government.

VOA: special.2011.04.21

They include nets,giant collecting arms and powerful laser beams that would move or destroy space junk.

VOA: special.2009.04.01

Many Whigs in the House of Representatives opposed the plan, because they feared that the political dispute over slavery would destroy the Supreme Court.

VOA: special.2009.03.05

And,in leading that war, he took the first steps that would destroy the institution of slavery.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

I thought that what in the end would destroy him would be the mathematics examination.

VOA: special.2010.03.27

"I thought that what is the end would destroy him would be the mathematics examination.

VOA: special.2009.01.03

Opponents of the Sherman Anti-Trust Bill said its purpose was not to destroy trusts, but to make the public believe that trusts would be destroyed.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

He ordered them to destroy everything that might be of use to the enemy.

VOA: special.2009.12.03

She was told by one man that Rockefeller would try to destroy McClure's Magazine.

VOA: special.2010.04.25

He warned that Roosevelt and the Democrats would destroy the American system.

VOA: special.2011.03.10

And confederate guns could destroy any ship that tried to enter.

VOA: special.2009.08.13

Rheumatoid arthritis is a painful disease that can destroy joints.

VOA: special.2010.05.19

"To me it's too artificial and it's also the same story that you've seen before with indigenous groups and the white colonial forces coming to destroy them or something like that."

VOA: special.2010.03.01