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Global warming is a hoax invented by China to destroy American industry.
Iran offers official support to terrorists and its president has threatened publicly to destroy Israel.
Andthe West must speed up structural reforms to become more competitive while ensuring that fiscal consolidation does not destroy growth.
Indeed, the euro could destroy the EU altogether.
Indeed, North Korea could close or destroy facilities yet never denuclearize if it continues to build capacity at the same time.
Such policies threaten both to destroy US jobs and to alienate America’s allies, many of which are already distancing themselves.
Prime Minister David Cameron’s decision to hold a referendum – perhaps as early as June – on the United Kingdom’s continued membership in the European Union could bring down his government, destroy his political party, and literally tear his country apart.
At first, this might seem like a crazy move: Why intentionally destroy the only possible way out in case of defeat?
And now some analysts suggest that new forms of computer programming will compound these developments, as algorithms, robots, and self-driving cars destroy middle-class jobs and worsen inequality.
Best-selling science fiction writers have long predicted that we will one day invent the machines that destroy us.
Only this approach can persuade Syrians that the campaign to destroy their country’s chemical weapons is not aimed at imposing a neo-colonial order, but rather at protecting them from a regime run amok.
Syria’s neighbors are again pouring money and weapons into the country to topple the regime, enabling Assad to invoke the foreign genie plotting to destroy the last revolutionary Arab regime.
People were afraid of malevolent computer viruses that would sweep the world and destroy information and programs in the space of a few hours.
Even if such an optimal political outcome were achieved, it is difficult to see what value could be added by external military intervention intended to destroy ISIS as a militant Sunni force.
They can destroy but not create.
The US found this out in 1994 – long before North Korea had a nuclear weapon – when it planned a pre-emptive strike to destroy the North’s Yongbyon plutonium reprocessing plant, only to find that its allies in South Korea (and Japan) were deterred by the risk of conventional retaliation.
If it is the uniqueness of human embryos that makes it wrong to destroy them, then there is no compelling reason not to take one cell from an embryo and destroy the remainder of it to obtain stem cells, for the embryo’s “unique genetic potential” would be preserved.
He would destroy our democracy without hesitation.
Though the Tigers can no longer destroy Sri Lanka’s democracy, fighting to the last guerrilla is in nobody's interest.
Nevertheless, victory over the Tigers need not rule out some form of decentralization that guarantees the Tamils some political say, so long as a degree of local autonomy does not destroy Sri Lanka’s unity.
Yet Saddam Hussein is regarded as a tyrant who needs to be disarmed, and the UN Security Council unanimously passed resolution 1441 which demanded that Saddam destroy his weapons of mass-destruction.
Today, European governments appear willing to allow Putin to buy the votes with which he will destroy the EU.
The United States went into Afghanistan to destroy Al Qaeda.
What is more certain is that the presence of armed fighters in a neighborhood provokes aerial attacks that destroy civilian infrastructure and maim and kill those residents who have not fled.
Much attention has been drawn to US President Donald Trump’s remark that the United States “will have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea” should the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) threaten it or its allies.
They tear societies apart, destroy the livelihoods of millions, and cause even greater conflicts, as we have seen in Iraq.
Looking back at his career, Arafat never really veered from the belief that his life's mission was to destroy Israel by any means necessary and replace it with a Palestinian Arab state.
As a result, elaborate systems of laws are needed to ensure that competition is open and fair, that monopolies and trusts do not destroy competition itself.
But to do that is to destroy the true character of religious belief.
As a result, Russia is now so mistrustful that its military chief of staff, General Nikolai Makarov, recently declared that his country would not rule out pre-emptive attacks to destroy any part of the anti-missile shield that it views as a threat to its own security.
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