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Thus, Israel is using the opportunity brought by the current fighting to search out and destroy Hezbollah’s underground and other hidden sites where it keeps its rockets and missiles.
Israel’s political aim is to destroy Hezbollah’s position as a legitimate Lebanese political party by exposing it as the paid agent of Iran, which serves foreign interests at grievous cost to Lebanon.
So Israel is blocking Lebanon’s ports from the sea, has breached the runways of all three jet-capable airfields, including Beirut’s international airport, and remains ready to destroy generating plants and other high-value targets, if necessary, to generate sufficient political pressure on Hezbollah.
Boom-and-bust destroy wellbeing, which is diminished far more by a fall in GDP than it is enhanced by an equal and opposite GDP increase.
To take just one example, the crankshaft of a BMW Mini crosses the English Channel three times before the car is completed, which means that any delay at the border will destroy the profitability of that supply chain.
The emergence of such a future would present the world with a stark choice: either acquiesce to an Iran that possesses or could quickly assemble a nuclear device, or launch a preventive military attack designed to destroy much of the Iranian nuclear program.
After all, to call something evil is to invoke a moral duty to destroy it.
Fourth, the eurozone is not the EU, and euro reform must not be allowed to destroy the EU as an alliance of equal partners.
I do not intend to discuss Poland’s internal politics, but I would like to show how a false understanding of Western practices, combined with a blind insistence on glib, populist solutions, creates unsustainable illusions and may destroy a chance to secure what de Tocqueville called "equality of opportunity."
Today, anxiety that new technologies could destroy millions of jobs is as high as ever.
It would have been a mistake, for example, to destroy America’s excess capacity in fiber optics, from which US firms gained enormously in the 1990s.
Malaria can destroy economic growth and hinder foreign investment just as much as war or economic mismanagement.
Stop the Band-Aid TreatmentThe Middle East is a tinderbox, with some key players on all sides waiting for every opportunity to destroy their enemies with bullets, bombs and missiles.
At the same time, the right-wing mantra – victory – failed to offer a credible way to replace the Iranian and Syrian governments, or to destroy Hamas and Hezbollah.
Meanwhile, the strengthening dollar will destroy more of the jobs typically held by Trump’s blue-collar base.
The president may have “saved” 1,000 jobs in Indiana by bullying and cajoling the air-conditioner manufacturer Carrier; but the US dollar’s appreciation since the election could destroy almost 400,000 manufacturing jobs over time.
As a result, the crisis is now threatening to destroy the EU itself.
The question for most Europeans, then, is not whether to destroy the EU, but how to improve it.
Moreover, the deal will probably destroy more US jobs than it creates.
The USMCA will not destroy NAFTA’s efficient supply chains, but it will raise their costs, thus undercutting that advantage.
But volcanic eruptions teach us that, while a cloud in the stratosphere would indeed cool the planet and stop ice from melting and the sea from rising, it would also destroy ozone and produce regional droughts.
The world lurches towards a currency war, or even towards trade protectionism, threatening to destroy jobs and growth.
Trump’s proposed policies are no different: They would undermine America’s security, depress its economy, and destroy the financial system.
Equality or EstrangementTOKYO – Those whom the gods would destroy, they grant their wishes.
The context was not explained, but what Obama said in full was this: “I’ve worked with Republican Senator Dick Lugar to pass a law that will secure and destroy some of the world’s deadliest, unguarded weapons,” and, “What I did was reach out to Senator Dick Lugar, a Republican, to help lock down loose nuclear weapons.”
Even the armed bandits who waylay relief supplies – making necessary a guard of soldiers with automatic weapons, standing every few hundred yards – cannot destroy this moment.
Now China may become the target of a full-fledged trade war that could destroy – or perhaps rescue – the chances of bringing rich and poor nations together to fight global warming.
Developing nations’ allies, meanwhile, are warning that the sanctions plan could destroy the chances of a post-Kyoto treaty.
Egypt even mounted an operation to destroy the tunnels between Gaza and Sinai, isolating Gaza completely.
To begin with, the capacity to dismantle and destroy nuclear warheads is limited, and likely to remain so.
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