They were in the process of self-destruction, although few recognized it at the time.
If self-destruction weren't seductive on some superficial level, then no one would ever need rehab.
But if there is a yen for self-destruction in Mr Milosevic, he has never displayed it.
But Mr Ackroyd is especially good at conveying Poe's precarious state, ever on the brink of self-destruction.
For the DPJ government the opposition's ineptitude has not mattered, so capable has it proved at self-destruction.
As the six-minute anthem's title suggests, singer-guitarist Scott Hutchison's pursuit of escape comes tinged with more than a whiff of self-destruction.
Untrusted recipients, however, may look to circumvent self-destruction and actively share items.
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Or perhaps the seeds of self-destruction are wired too deeply into democracy.
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The title of the new report from the International Crisis Group is Zimbabwe's Continuing Self-Destruction, and the title pretty much sums up the 20-page document.
The discussion in support of the charter is simple: Form a global partnership to care for Earth and mankind, or risk self-destruction and the loss of diversity of life.
Scott's victory is substantial for several reasons: he's the first Australian to do it, it's his first major, it comes less than a year after an ugly self-destruction at the British Open.
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It was legal self-destruction: Sion lost every case.
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Meanwhile Governor Davis, who seems to have an almost Clintonesque luck in having enemies prone to self-destruction (but not, as yet, any of the president's knack for attracting opponents who loathe him), looks ever stronger.
The horror of nuclear conflict may make its occurrence unlikely, but the very existence of nuclear weapons leaves the human race ever at the brink of self-destruction, particularly if the weapons fall into the wrong hands.
Does she want self-fulfillment or self-destruction?
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When I was searching for a title for my book on those who die young and those who survive, and on the temptations of self-destruction for those who do, I came across another beautiful example of aposiopesis, one even older than Virgil.
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In other words, they are a sort of savior-entity attempting to address the issue of scarcity and resource depletion by rescuing Earth (and Mars, as well as many other planets) from self-destruction by pooling our resources with a potentially unlimited number of other planets throughout the universe.
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That creates the possibility of a cycle of self-reinforcing destruction.
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