means of destruction

collocation in English

meaningsofmeansanddestruction

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means
noun
uk
/miːnz/us
/miːnz/
a method or way of ...
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destruction
noun[U]
uk
/dɪˈstrʌk.ʃən/us
/dɪˈstrʌk.ʃən/
the act of destroying something, or the fact of ...
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(Definition ofmeansanddestructionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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We all know that if differentmeansofdestructionhad been available to the perpetrators, that number could have been 70,000 or 700,000.
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The technicalmeansofdestructionat her disposal were far less.
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The fact is that there has been a mighty revolution in themeansofdestruction.
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There is a difference of kind not just degree between them and all othermeansofdestruction.
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For that reason, one could claim that the remedy, namely control bymeansofdestruction, is worse than the disease itself.
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The weight of opinion is strongly in favour of the exclusion of the trap as ameansofdestructionin this particular case.
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I suspect that, in the overwhelming majority of cases, disposal of mink will be bymeansofdestruction, because other means of disposal are not appropriate.
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We must recognise that the whole of humanity has been spending far too much money and wasting resources on arms andmeansofdestructionfor far too many years.
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One of our duties is to try to get rid of themeansofdestructionand to make it harder for people to be involved in such activities.
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They aremeansofdestruction.
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I believe that we shall find with otter hunting, as with stag hunting, that if we prohibit hunting in those cases, othermeansofdestructionwill be resorted to.
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It has continued through the cold war, and the development of horrifyingmeansofdestruction, to a situation the like of which has never been known before.
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If there are critical points within the target, they also must be recognizable by themeansofdestructionused.
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Burning has always been one of the recognisedmeansofdestruction.
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Othermeansofdestructionhave been used in the past but are now obsolete.
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But in the years following the war and into the 1950s the role of design engineer languished, stigmatized by the war effort as the creator of newmeansofdestruction.
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And what is one to say of the frightful accumulation ofmeansofdestructionin a world facing the no less frightful problems of hunger, disease and ignorance?
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