Was it all a crude stab at wrecking Turkey's chances of joining the European Union?
In today's often sanitised world, the long-standing coastal tradition of wrecking may still live on.
The inflation driven exhilaration proves fleeting as the pendulum swings back like a wrecking ball.
It guaranteed the obligations of Irish banks to a reckless degree, wrecking the country's public finances.
Greens reject growth because they believe it cannot be sustained without wrecking the planet.
Even now, one country has shown that change is achievable without wrecking the model.
Private-equity firms have been accused of wrecking companies since the 1980s, if not before.
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Had Madoff acted selfishly, he would never have dug himself such a life-wrecking hole.
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There are technologies that will give us the energy to power the world without wrecking the planet.
And the longer they last, the less either side will want to be blamed for wrecking them.
Last week, the government lost patience, telling creditor banks to take the wrecking ball to the Daewoo group.
He was a one man wrecking crew Monday night, smashing three doubles and a homer to lead St.
Mr Quinn accused the IBRC of wrecking his company and pursuing a "vendetta" against him and his family.
In a letter to Xuan Zang, Shenzhen's Jing Bao vows to defend the temple against the wrecking ball.
And purists believe that a glut of Twenty20 is wrecking the game's aesthetics.
In response to any big devaluation, Argentina might be forced to impose duties on imports from Brazil, wrecking Mercosur.
For 20 years after the passing of Lynn Fontanne, Ten Chimneys sat in jeopardy, nearly falling to a wrecking ball.
Today in Hoyerswerda there is too much residential property and the wrecking ball demolished 7, 150 apartments between 1990 and 2008.
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In the 1940s Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia saved the building that would become New York City Center from the wrecking ball.
The Widow Mine burrows and shoots out smaller explosives which can be good for wrecking mineral lines or light unit clusters.
But when the wrecking ball finally came for the exhibit, in the 1960s, it bounced right off the building's polymer walls.
Leave lawyering to lawyers, but when pendulums swing sometimes they return like wrecking balls smacking those who previously prodded the pendulum.
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Russia blew up a key rail bridge this week, wrecking Georgia's main rail network that also runs to Armenia and Azerbaijan.
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The wrecking of VOC vessels in Shetland was recorded by the Dutch company, and centuries later the shipwrecks were located by divers.
But look beyond the most energy-intensive sectors, and the notion that high oil prices are quashing demand and wrecking firms is overdone.
He denied his proposal was a wrecking amendment, claiming the measures in the bill would simply be implemented at a later date.
The exhibit got a further boost when Springsteen released his album Wrecking Ball and launched a tour that would take him to Philadelphia.
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His next purchase was a 1920s Mediterranean designed by William Templeton Johnson, also in La Jolla, that was slated for the wrecking ball.
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Few people like the idea of retiring later, but it may be essential to prevent the ageing of populations from wrecking public finances.
Even the organisers were not sure, and they certainly did not want us barging in with a camera uninvited and risk wrecking everything.
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