Confederate President Jefferson Davis ordered his commander in Charleston, General Beauregard, to destroy the fort before the food could arrive.

VOA: special.2009.08.13

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

VOA: special.2010.04.25

So for the ten patients in the study, doctors used a low amount of radiation to destroy only some of their marrow.

VOA: special.2009.12.16

One of the showerheads was cleaned with a bleach solution in an effort to destroy the bacteria.

VOA: special.2009.10.13

It could change the plane's path just enough to destroy the pilot's chance of a safe landing.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

By eighteen seventy-one, radical Republican congressmen were demanding a new law to destroy the Ku Klux Klan.

VOA: special.2010.02.18

Many experts question whether the Russian government can carry out its threat to destroy the terrorists.

VOA: special.2010.04.03

Doctors first used chemicals to destroy the children's own marrow, then replaced it with healthy marrow.

VOA: special.2009.12.16

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

He said he could do more to destroy slavery by hanging than by staying alive.

VOA: special.2009.07.02

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

They often tried to destroy the wagon trains carrying settlers to California and Oregon.

VOA: special.2010.04.01

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