Collocations withdestruction
These are words often used in combination withdestruction.
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assured destruction
They claimed that their military-political balance of mutually assured destruction constituted 'shared' interests and served the specific interests of the alliances, too.
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brink of destruction
The cold war led to a nuclear arms race that brought the world to the brink of destruction.
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complete destruction
The war meant an almost complete destruction of village life.
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creative destruction
Economic change takes place through a process of creative destruction whereby entrepreneurs discover new combinations of existing resources that replace older ones.
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deliberate destruction
This practice most likely was part of the deliberate destruction of the building.
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destruction of wildlife
The obvious example is the destruction of wildlife; for example, birds.
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environmental destruction
An even more taboo subject in most rich countries is that other major driver of environmental destruction, overconsumption.
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eventual destruction
If the created intermediate results are structured objects - for example, lists or trees - their creation and eventual destruction will consume time and memory space.
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extensive destruction
This leads to extensive destruction of brain tissue and death of the animal.
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instrument of destruction
It becomes a thanatological instrument of destruction.
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mass destruction
All these problems are built in wherever human beings have invented techniques of mass destruction.
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massive destruction
The massive destruction of old sacred monuments can be better conceived as a ritual purification of the inner circle of unchristian, pagan elements.
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means of destruction
We all know that if different means of destruction had been available to the perpetrators, that number could have been 70,000 or 700,000.
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mutual destruction
This would not be the case if mutual destruction of vorticity by viscous diffusion were allowed.
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path of destruction
It contains a wealth of information on the path of destruction in that region and suggests steps towards sustainability.
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physical destruction
A greater concern was the physical destruction of the wealth of the church and, in turn, the impact on hospitality and charity.
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rapid destruction
In bio-diversity terms any increase in livestock and/or wildlife could lead to acute land degradation and rapid destruction of the fragile fauna and flora habitats.
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systematic destruction
What connects the two is the wanton violence on women and children, the systematic destruction of the economy, and the general terror in the countryside.
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total destruction
Furthermore, nightmares have been described where subjects experience the total destruction of their body.
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trail of destruction
At the end of the nineteen thirties the wind of history swept over that house, leaving a trail of destruction.
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ultimate destruction
However, the general, immutable plan in which this occurred involved ultimate destruction.
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utter destruction
They have lived their whole lives in a world which believes in the need to maintain, as a deterrent, the power of utter destruction.
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wanton destruction
It avoided the wanton destruction of human and social capital.
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wholesale destruction
Second, it led in practical and immediate terms to the wholesale destruction of cultural goods and to the social regression of entire peoples, ostensibly on behalf of higher values.
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widespread destruction
The republic and guerillas reacted to this with a scorched-earth policy that resulted in widespread destruction.
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