In these, as in the forests of the Old World, destruction was perpetually going on.
When we hear the door of the very last bookstore slam shut with the same sort of "sickening smack" that announced the chopping of the last Truffula tree, will the Once-lers of the digital world regret their destruction of the old literary habitat?
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Calling Hurricane Katrina "a portal into the future, " he says it is already too late to avert a rise of up to one degree that will lead to Arctic meltdown, extreme drought across much of the world and the destruction of low-lying island nations such as Tuavalu and the Maldives.
Turner -- who backs the elimination of nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction -- wanted to know whether the administration has considered ridding the world of weapons of mass destruction and supporting nuclear nonproliferation, rather than pursuing a missile defense program that would cost billions.
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"They are directly contributing to the destruction of world's remaining ancient forests, " he alleged.
" Or, as South Carolina plantation mistress Mary Chesnut lamented: "Our world has gone to destruction.
But some have gone further west to the coastal city of Izmir - a place itself scarred by wanton killing and destruction in World War I.
The destruction of World Heritage sites in Mali in 2012, especially the mausoleums in Timbuktu, sparked a wave of indignation across the world, helping to raise awareness of the critical situation facing the Malian people.
It behooves us, therefore, to be making a redoubled effort to counter our immediate enemies: adherents to a totalitarian ideology bent on world domination and the destruction of all who stand in the way of that goal.
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But today, Virginia is for Killers as well as lovers because Virginia is ground zero of the military-industrial complex that carries on perpetual war around the world wrecking death and destruction wherever its shooters tread dragging it tail of ordinary people behind.
C. taking 1.5 million barrels out of production is peanuts with demand destruction in the world now above 2 million barrels.
Destruction of the world's forests releases large quantities of CO2, which form part of the greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming.
Barber had caught a small glimpse of a larger global issue -- the destruction of the world's coral reefs -- and it scared him.
Particularly frightening is the fact that this tradition teaches that the precursor for the imam's arrival is apocalyptic death and destruction in the world.
"An area the size of Wales is frequently used to measure the rate of forest destruction around the world, " said Size of Wales project manager, Hannah Scrase.
The anti-terrorism campaign begun after the destruction of the World Trade Center and the attack on the Pentagon "will not be quick, and it will not be easy, " he said.
But although bin Laden claimed responsibility for the destruction of the World Trade Center and the deaths of thousands of Americans, the outpouring of celebration doesn't feel right for everyone.
Nukes (bombs) are costly to maintain and what is the big deal about having such dangerous weapons that cannot be used at all for fear of total destruction of the world.
Environmental groups have long complained that the WTO speeds the destruction of the world's forests and other resources by pressing its member nations to throw open their markets to increased trade.
We're being challenged like never before, and we have a duty to our country and to future generations of America to achieve a free Iraq, a free Afghanistan, and to rid the world of weapons of mass destruction.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg went even further last week declaring that those critical of the construction of a permanent symbol of Shariah adherents' victorious destruction of the World Trade Center "ought to be ashamed of themselves" for being intolerant.
The destruction of the World Trade Centre was a terrible, depraved, large-scale mirror image of what is already the experience of many outside the developed world: people, going about their normal business, being obliterated out of the blue by the planned, hostile actions of others.
In contemporary Britain its members are more worried about the destruction of the natural world.
The forces promoting the Palestinian narrative throughout the world are increasingly calling for the destruction of Israel.
There, nearly 20, 000 ecologists arrived from nearly 200 nations to find ways to stem the tide of ecological destruction occurring around the world.
The gravity of this moment is matched by the gravity of the threat that Iraq's weapons of mass destruction pose to the world.
With Iran in mind, foreign ministers earlier adopted a series of principles on preventing the spread of weapons of mass destruction all over the world.
In its place is a world awash with weapons of mass destruction and rogue states seeking ever-more-capable means of delivering them via ballistic and cruise missiles.
Confronted by enemies bent on nothing short of Western civilization's destruction, the Free World turns to America for leadership in developing the policies that will ultimately defeat these menaces.
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Worse yet, a blue-ribbon commission has calculated that the probability of the use of weapons of mass destruction somewhere in the world by 2013 is now over 50 percent.
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