China says that at the end of their missions, the modules will be driven into the atmosphere for a destructive descent into a remote part of the Pacific Ocean.
The World Bank also became a destructive force by turning a blind eye to internal corruption when awarding lucrative construction contracts and by ignoring massive corruption in its client countries.
In his 2004 novel I Am Charlotte Simmons, writer and social critic Tom Wolfe describes a sharp-witted female student who is, on paper, ideally suited for an Ivy League school, yet she finds herself brought down by a destructive social life at a fictional university.
Though the vista was decidedly grand, we were eager to get down to that destructive trickle a mile below, to do something besides point and shoot.
"I had my head in the clouds, was mad, neurotic and self-destructive, a very different character to the one you see today, " she said.
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This is the drama of a flawed and self-destructive hero, a protagonist of great achievements and overweening presumption.
Issuance of these loans exploded just before the crisis, as buyout firms launched ever-larger takeovers and banks engaged in a destructive race to the bottom, ceding a huge amount of power to borrowers and ending up with large losses.
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Household insects are a destructive nuisance, and outdoor pests can become a public health issue.
If the full economic benefits, externalities included, of energy independence are also taken into the equation, then we could well see CO2 go from a despised and destructive waste product to a valuable commodity.
Acord with manufacturing a destructive device with the intent of detonating it at a school.
Authorities announced the criminal investigation last Friday, the same day investigators said a paramedic who responded to the fire was arrested on suspicion of possession of a destructive device after investigators allegedly found materials to make a pipe bomb at his home.
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said in a statement that "a destructive Pacific-wide tsunami is not expected" as a result of the quakes, and that there is no tsunami threat to Hawaii.
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Instead of texting being a destructive influence on learners, the academics argue that it offers them a chance to "practise reading and spelling on a daily basis".
Khalidi is an enthusiastic supporter of the Palestinians, fervent critic of Israel (which he calls a destructive "racist" state), an admirer of suicide bombers and a driving force behind the Arab American Action Network (AAAN).
The passion trap is a destructive pattern of beliefs and behaviors that occur when someone falls in love with a business concept.
Unfortunately, these systems can just as quickly become a destructive force with devastating consequences.
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The summers of 2000 and 2002 were the most destructive in half a century.
Reed, who was arrested early Friday, is charged with possession of a destructive device.
Reed Smoot and Rep. Willis Hawley, who authored a destructive age of protectionism.
But this dream, to Obama, seems credulous and shallow, a destructive craving for weightlessness.
The move would be a destructive mistake for both our economy and the world's.
Insurers will suffer the brunt of a destructive Irene, especially if it hits New York hard.
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Local militias, nurtured and protected by the Indonesian army, embarked on a destructive rampage.
Isaac has the potential to be a destructive and devastating storm along the Gulf Coast.
Research by the University of Stirling suggests that an 'us-versus-them' mindset is not always a destructive force.
He is charged with attempting to destroy the plane and placing a destructive device on the aircraft.
The impulse behind both Blow's January tweet and his "magic underwear" one is a destructive and ignorant one.
For a little while it had a destructive effect on me and some of the people around me.
It intervenes politically only when politicians have made a destructive hash of things.
No matter how it is carried out, oil extraction is a destructive business.
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