Semantic field of destruction

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• collapse
• " President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, where another collapsing currency and hyperinflation provoked food riots this week in the capital, Harare, was accused in neighboring South Africa of being the sole cause of his own misfortunes.
• Esau's bitter hatred to his brother Jacob for fraudulently obtaining his blessing appears to have been inherited by his latest posterity.
• Quicklime is quick (that is, alive, as in the quick and the dead) because it is anhydrous (Greek for unwatered) and soaks up water with a vengeance to make slaked lime (calcium hydroxide, Ca(OH)2, from CaO + H2O), which is what makes quicklime so useful as the binding agent in mortar, cement, and concrete.
• peril
• Nor one whose weapons are broken, nor one afflicted (with sorrow), nor one who has been grievously wounded, nor one who is in fear, nor one who has turned to flight; (but in all these cases let him) remember the duty (of honourable warriors).
• dismantle
• To put the matter differently, I could write an essay called “The Perils of Literacy” or “A Little Literacy Is a Dangerous Thing.” Much of the ineffectual use of language is traceable to the fact that although many people want to improve their language, they are completely unfamiliar with the help available to them.
• signaled
• devastating
• civilization
• threat
• Furthermore, most people who have been sexually abused do not appear to suffer either short-term or long-term psychiatric harm (although this in no way condones such behaviour).
• ruin
• Under a three-column photograph on its front page, the NYT reports that the federal government is considering the highly controversial step of dismantling four huge dams on Washington's Snake River.
• There is no simple explanation for the damage caused.
• The radar unit determines the target vehicle speed from the difference in frequency between the reflected signal and the original signal.
• Devastating as this revelation is, it is unlikely to appreciably affect DiCaprio's ability to lure more barmaids up for a five-minute fumble.
• "Civilizations are the ultimate human tribes, and the clash of civilizations is tribal conflict on a global scale," he writes in the book.
• slaughtering
• Further, the beating received by the appellant in August 1987 was not reported to the police, nor were the threats received by the appellant and other members of the social services club until 26 August 1988, very late in the piece.
• Additionally, On Site Maintenance and Engineering Services will keep a copy in their files in case your original is lost or destroyed.
• danger
• destroying
• Another parallel may be found between the premise underlying the creation of SNACC amidst the ruins and the performances of these artistes in exile.
• An extreme natural becomes a disaster when destruction of property and loss of life result.
• "There was once a civilisation that was the greatest in the world.
• ravage
• The eighteen causes of untimely death, enemies, beasts of prey etc; will be unable to harm you."
• adversary
• disasters
• Massive areas of bush in both islands were burnt off, dozens of birds were harried into extinction, and the large seal colonies which once thronged our coasts were largely wiped out.
• Its 14 Corinthian columns rise skyward from a platform that was in use as recently as the 19th century as a slaughterhouse.
• destroys
• In the course of Darger's story--titled The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinnean War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion --the sisters (the Vivian Girls) manage to escape from the men (the Glandelinians) time and time again, but countless less fortunate girl-slaves are spectacularly mutilated and slaughtered along the way.
• genocides
• I can't explain the shift in thinking other than to speculate that the media establishment is finally giving up and accepting his inevitability the way the political establishment long ago did.
• By having them seperately definable you can show holiday pay owing without having to show sick leave owing.
• Fire Danger: A general term used to express an assessment of both fixed and variable factors of the fire environment that determine the ease of ignition, rate of spread, difficulty of control, and fire impact.
• Additionally, On Site Maintenance and Engineering Services will keep a copy in their files in case your original is lost or destroyed.
• Dogs seem to wreak havoc in a short time, however mustelids such as ferrets and stoats are held responsible for the decline or even disappearance of many colonies along the New Zealand coast.
• preparedness
• looted
• If the doctrine of the Incarnation was intended to be applied to the whole of humankind then why has it taken so long for this to manifest itself within the cultural stream?
• At the centre of the maelstrom of violence and cursing we hear this voice offering forgiveness to us for all the things we have ignorantly or knowingly done.
• waging
• reckoning
• destroy
• brunt
• annihilate
• An active government cultural policy in recent years has ­preserved the architectural monuments of the “national patrimony” from the ravages of time, weather, war, revolution, and urban development.
• enemy
• As shown in Table 2, over 90% of the genes showed a twofold range (|log 2 ratio| < 1) in most comparisons, confirming and extending the initial comparisons between 4DR and IME.
• plunder
• The proliferation of weapons of mass destruction to rogue states and potential adversaries.
• An extreme natural becomes a disaster when destruction of property and loss of life result.
• consequences
• The consequence of this constant k being 5/3 and not 1 will be explored further, and found to explain several phenomena not well understood previously.
• On the other hand, activity is based on desire and fear, on longing to possess and enjoy, on fear of pain and annihilation.
• Additionally, On Site Maintenance and Engineering Services will keep a copy in their files in case your original is lost or destroyed.
• wreaking
• Faceless, a bestseller, is an explosive novel of East End violence and retribution.
• While the genocide has ended, random killing by policemen continues.
• evil
• inflicted
• exterminate
• demolished
• Bush administration officials have hoped that extensive debriefings of former top officials of Hussein's government would provide some of the backing for its prewar assertion that Iraq posed an imminent threat to the United States.
• During the 10 minute intervals between stimulation, control twitch contractions were elicited to verify absence of force decline due to fatigue and/or fiber damage.
• butchering
• pillaging
• In the fall of 1995, none other than Henry Kissinger--the author of the secret incursion into Cambodia that prompted the War Powers Act--asserted that Clinton must "obtain clear and unambiguous congressional backing" before sending troops to Bosnia.
• mankind
• humanity
• decimate
• Is your web site chaos?
• At the risk of being lumped into Cramer's "legion of enemies," I thought it worth highlighting some of the absurdities in the piece.
• Preparedness of First Responders On 9/11, the principal first responders were from the Fire Department of New York, the New York Police Department, the Port Authority Police Department (PAPD), and the Mayor's Office of Emergency Management (OEM).
• The mutineers then invaded Delhi, Kanpur (Cawnpore), and Lucknow, looting treasuries, breaking open jails, and killing British men, women, and children.
• As a coda to our conversation yesterday about the perils of technology run amok, see today's "Work & Family" column in the Wall Street Journal , in which "A Technology Junkie Learns To Live Life a Little Less Plugged in."
• spared
• catastrophe
• Tram Lease wanted to demolish a wall separating the shoe repair shop and a vacant KFC store on the corner of Broadway and Balm St. 422909
• Bernard dog caused damage estimated at 200,000 Swiss francs (NZ$247,000) by wagging its tail against a kitchen cooker, police in Argovie, northern Switzerland said yesterday.
• Ah, but Domingues didn't reckon on then President Bush who inserted language in the treaty explicitly stating that here in the United States we love to execute children.
• slaughter
• obliterated
• Additionally, On Site Maintenance and Engineering Services will keep a copy in their files in case your original is lost or destroyed.
• Congratulations to William Brunt who is our new Student Representative on the Board of Trustees.
• However, both effects were largely annihilated after 72 h of SKP2 overexpression.
• He was at ground zero of a catastrophic explosion and fire aboard the aircraft carrier USS Forrestal that claimed 134 lives, but suffered only superficial injuries.
• At the risk of being lumped into Cramer's "legion of enemies," I thought it worth highlighting some of the absurdities in the piece.
• dismantled
• For merely threatening someone with grievous bodily harm.
• This was emphasized in 1904 when a ship wrecked off Sanur was plundered of its cargo.
• In 1807 the Treaty was put in jeopardy and the troops returned, re­main­ing until 1814.
• demolishing
• F. Troops brandish Galil assault rifles; vigilantes use rifles, pistols, machetes to kill 45 suspected looters.
• The consequence of this constant k being 5/3 and not 1 will be explored further, and found to explain several phenomena not well understood previously.
• The mutineers then invaded Delhi, Kanpur (Cawnpore), and Lucknow, looting treasuries, breaking open jails, and killing British men, women, and children.
• By marrying across the color line, by raising mixed-race children without regard to labels, they promise to obliterate our antiquated notions of racial difference.
• While the genocide has ended, random killing by policemen continues.
• Dogs seem to wreak havoc in a short time, however mustelids such as ferrets and stoats are held responsible for the decline or even disappearance of many colonies along the New Zealand coast.
• Made possible by its conquests, elegant Palladian villas grace the Veneto mainland from Venice to Padua and Vicenza.
• Morpheus checks the ship's self destruct key.
• Touch of Evil (Universal Pictures).
• Papers should avoid inflicting this sort of information on the reader sans context.
• Getting Buggy Wit It There I was, late one night in the Microsoft software factory, furiously exterminating some of the skankier bugs from my areas of Outlook 97, our e-mail program.
• Tram Lease wanted to demolish a wall separating the shoe repair shop and a vacant KFC store on the corner of Broadway and Balm St. 422909
• Cultivars are recognizable because they manifest characteristics that are associated with domestication in plants.
• This district northwest of Chongqing was so inaccessible in earlier times that many thousands of statues were never exposed to pillage.
• Other topics this week: What makes a sex symbol sexy, commentary on Neil Jordan's The Butcher Boy , Werner Herzog's Little Dieter Needs to Fly , and the (apparently) implicit homoeroticism in Grease .
• This district northwest of Chongqing was so inaccessible in earlier times that many thousands of statues were never exposed to pillage.
• There was also an enrichment of genes associated with structure and permeability; in this class several genes were ubiquitously altered in both IBD and non-IBD samples, reflecting dysregulation of genes for paracellular permeability, degradation of extracellular matrix, and barrier protection against bacterial invasion of the epithelial surface.
• The Omo River is the corridor to the more probable site of the "Cradle of Mankind".
• Humanity is on the brink of a huge discovery, and one from which it will never recover.
• After the entire area has decimated itself, some compliant commander in chief has to be in place to send in the troops to secure the oil if it's not too radioactive.
• Skeptics noted the convenient timing of the report--the Cambodian army was closing in on him and the United States was building international support for a war crimes trial--but journalists saw the corpse, confirmed his death, and broadcast video of him to prove it.
• The foolish man takes the easy road and while he ends up with a house quickly, as soon as the inevitable storms of life come it is crushed.
• I was, for one thing, suspicious of the media hype--to which we are now, of course, contributing--around these books, and I still dread the eventual movies and the inevitable merchandising frenzy that will follow.
• ... [It] escalated a guerrilla warfare into a real war, and the real losers are the Kosovars and innocent civilians."
• Last year, in fact, was a banner year for calamity: FEMA found itself responding to 75 major disasters and eight emergencies so designated by the White House.
• We know the importance of providing quick unit servicing and despatch of spare parts.
• Full Catastrophe Living is good for anyone who has considered meditating but fears it may be too hard or involve religious practices they cannot identify with.
• But Bowden's excellent reporting--he interviewed scores of U.S. and Somali soldiers--makes for a "vivid, immediate and unsparing narrative that is filled with blood and noise and terror" (Jonathan Yardley, the Washington Post ).
• That's why I often discount all the stories that predict AOL's downfall.
• The palace proper was completed around 1600 b.c., and the destruction of 1450 b.c.
• In the course of Darger's story--titled The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinnean War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion --the sisters (the Vivian Girls) manage to escape from the men (the Glandelinians) time and time again, but countless less fortunate girl-slaves are spectacularly mutilated and slaughtered along the way.
• By marrying across the color line, by raising mixed-race children without regard to labels, they promise to obliterate our antiquated notions of racial difference.
• The proliferation of weapons of mass destruction to rogue states and potential adversaries.
• After farewell tributes to Frank Sinatra last week, this week the supermarket tabs turn to the gory aftermath: the escalating hatred between his children and his widow, Barbara.
• However, both effects were largely annihilated after 72 h of SKP2 overexpression.
• Lacan's life was a struggle against the institutionalization of knowledge, and he flourished by creating havoc, both publicly (in a famous break with the International Psychoanalytic Institute) and privately (among some of his colleagues).
• Councillor Bruce Rogan said the release of a GE organism would be irreversible and it was not possible for scientific assertions to be made about limiting the boundaries of research.
• Under a three-column photograph on its front page, the NYT reports that the federal government is considering the highly controversial step of dismantling four huge dams on Washington's Snake River.
• This included unconditioned basements, exposed ducts, an infiltration rate of 0.67, a heating set point of 20 degrees C (68 degrees F), and a cooling set point of 26 degrees C (78 degrees F).
• I'm also, for better or worse, a creature of Western sensibilities, in which crude lines are customarily drawn between the murderous imperatives of battle and the wanton bloodlust of barbarism.
• Furthermore, Leuchter can't figure out how the gas would even have been administered without killing the Nazis themselves--proof, he argues, that mass extermination at Auschwitz never took place.
• Tram Lease wanted to demolish a wall separating the shoe repair shop and a vacant KFC store on the corner of Broadway and Balm St. 422909
• Its demise leaves us with a couple of issues to ponder upon.
• The most striking thing about this story is how self-destructive the behavior of the oligarchs seems to have been.
• I have seen their devastation, their anger, their utter astonishment that their adult children had suddenly turned what once seemed a normal, everyday family into something out of a horror magazine."

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