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How to use the word DESTROY in a Sentence? Page #14

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Lassa fever occurs because people live in the forest and destroy it for farming.

David Heymann

Found on CNN
7 years ago

It all makes for a difficult diplomatic problem for Tillerson to figure out how to manage, how do we destroy ISIS, while maintaining a relationship with a critical NATO ally?

John Hannah

Found on CNN
7 years ago

I tried not to think of the people who are obsessed with Jack Fawcett on 1925, it would get me panicked that I would screw it up... If I thought about it it'd destroy me.

James Gray

Found on CNN
7 years ago

Here’s what I hope – that we turn around and go back to where we were, because what we’re doing is going to destroy the judiciary over time.

Lindsey Graham

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

We were dealing with very devious people who had the capability to destroy me as a republican.

Martin McGuinness

Found on CNN
7 years ago

This is wrong. We have to put a stop to this. Because if this continues it will destroy us as a country, as a nation, it is bringing out the worst in a lot of people ... Most of (those killed) will be poor, most of them will be users, and the problems of poverty will still be there. It is not addressed. It is going to bring us to ruin.

Amado Picardal

Found on CNN
7 years ago

I think the Russians participated in helping this man get elected. And they helped destroy the candidacy of Hillary Clinton.

John Lewis

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

I would like to see it all reversed and for Congress to get rid of the Antiquities Act, tourists are going to pour in and destroy the land and other people won’t be able to use it.

Sandy Johnson

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

We can’t let Trump put the world’s largest oil company in charge of our international climate policy, tillerson may be a friend of Putin’s, but he’s no friend of the planet. ExxonMobil is still a leading funder of climate denial and is pursuing a business plan that will destroy our future. Tillerson deserves a federal investigation, not federal office.

May Boeve

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Billy Bush should n’t be fired. Billy Bush, as a reporter, sometimes plays to the interviewee and made a bad call in going too far with what everyone is calling ‘ locker room talk,' Davis said. Billy Bush’s going to get a rough break here. There’s no excuse for the aggressive rape talk. billy Bush offense isn't what Billy Bush observed Trump saying. Billy Bush offense's that Billy Bush didn't throw Donald Trump under the bus once Billy Bush decided to run. Billy Bush offense's what the media wanted Billy Bush to do, Gainor said. Since Billy Bush didn't, Billy Bush time there is over. I'm sure network execs could go through thousands of hours of tape and destroy tons of other celebrity careers for the awful things they say and do. Only they won't. Because they only want to get Donald Trump because Donald Trump's running as a Republican. Billy Bush is collateral damage.

Dan Gainor

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

The defendants, if not legally reined in, are allegedly responsible, along with others, for igniting a race war that will ultimately totally destroy the freedoms that our Founding Fathers bequeathed to us.

Larry Klayman

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

We mourn for all the lives lost, we will never forget. … It is also a day of resolve. Our solemnduty on behalf ofall those who perished … is to work together as one nation to keep all of our people safe from an enemy that seeks nothing less than to destroy our way of life.

Hillary Clinton

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

I believe it’s another stop in the progressive political movement to destroy the education system, we have a lot of American values and traditions that seem to be whittling away.

Micah Brienen

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Oh Allah, destroy the odious Christians. Oh Allah Kill them all.

The Telegraph

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

The idea is to use the South China Sea as a place to save lives, but not to kill people or to destroy lives.

Former Philippines President Fidel Ramos

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

They’re more afraid of tax cuts, they only want a government solution, and so they’re willing to destroy an effort that would actually reduce carbon emissions, make us more energy efficient, because they care more about government than climate change.

Todd Myers

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Since 2013 ... we have formed four divisions, nine brigades and 22 regiments, they include two missile brigades armed with Iskander missile complexes, which has allowed to boost fire power to destroy the potential adversary.

Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The idea is not to give yourself permission to destroy your health 20 percent of the time, and rebound 80 percent of the time.

Brian Quebbemann

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Those who steal should get extra punishment because the destroy other honest peoples trust between eachother.

Severin Meiland

added by anonymous
7 years ago

In different places we are presented with political actors and political leaders who assume populist and demagogic positions, and try to eliminate or destroy ... that which has taken decades to build.

Pena Nieto

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Its goal was to destroy Filat as a person, in the most humiliating and crushing manner possible. We will seek a fair trial outside Moldova and will find a lawful ruling.

Igor Popa

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The passage of Senate Bill 1146 would destroy the foundation upon which this university was founded, systematically discriminating against religious institutions and preventing student access and choice to Christian higher education is bad policy and will have a negative effect on the state of California.

John Jackson

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

A concerted effort is underway to dehumanize the streets, to create a society stripped of its reactions, for all its flaws, Turkey has a certain culture of democracy which there's an effort underway to destroy. People will react to that in whatever form.

Sedef Cakmak

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

We need a commander-in-chief who will speak the truth, and who will unleash the full force and fury of the American military to utterly destroy ISIS and its affiliates, we need to pass the Expatriate Terrorist Act, so that known ISIS terrorists cannot use U.S. passports to return to America and wage jihad. We need a President who is serious – who will identify the enemy by name and do everything necessary to defeat it.

Ted Cruz

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

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