They are only doing what is necessary to prevent wholesale destruction of vegetation.

他们只是在做为防止植被遭大规模破坏而必须做的事情。

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Only by allowing the "winds of creative destruction" to blow freely could capital be released from dying firms to new industries.

只有允许“创造性毁灭之风”自由的吹动，资本才能从濒临破产的企业流向新兴企业。

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That affluent nations have produced half of the world's environmental destruction while paying only 3% of its costs.

富裕的国家付出只有3 %的成本，却为这个世界制造了一半以上的环境破坏。

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Mazen told the audience violent resistance will only lead to self-destruction.

VOA: standard.2009.12.12

Of 20 identifiable sites that were said to be conquered or captured by Joshua and the next generations, only two show destruction layers for this time, Hazor and Bethel.

在据说被攻占的20处可辨认的遗址中,被约书亚及其子孙所攻占，只有两处显示出当时的摧毁层，夏锁和伯特利。

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"The mission found that the attack on the only remaining flour-producing factory, the destruction of a large part of the Gaza egg production, the bulldozing of huge tracts of agricultural land, and the bombing of some could not on any basis be justified on military grounds.

VOA: standard.2009.09.29

The war can only bring destruction.

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Only after much destruction and suffering could she be enticed out of the cave again.

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Whim worshipping only leads to self destruction, and any one is free to destroy themselves.

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