Destruction in example sentence

Nepotism, patronage within the family circle, is thus a natural way for anybody in power, or aspiring to it, to strengthen his support in societies where other institutions are weak or non-existent, or where the destruction of existing institutions forms part of the power-grabber's intentions.

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How do we deal with our deepest differences, given the human propensity for conflict and the human genius at devising weapons of enormous destruction?

So instead of just growing destruction, we want to grow the things that we might enjoy, and someday the FDA will allow us to make French cheese.

And you look behind you, and there's destruction all around you.

But he watched physicists and chemists become the purveyors of weapons of mass destruction in the early 20th century.

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