Destroying Sentence Examples
He was serious about destroying the mortal world.
There is no other way to keep the Other from destroying everything.
The battle of Tarutino obviously did not attain the aim Toll had in view--to lead the troops into action in the order prescribed by the dispositions; nor that which Count Orlov-Denisov may have had in view-- to take Murat prisoner; nor the result of immediately destroying the whole corps, which Bennigsen and others may have had in view; nor the aim of the officer who wished to go into action to distinguish himself; nor that of the Cossack who wanted more booty than he got, and so on.
If the Cossacks did not capture Napoleon then, what saved him was the very thing that was destroying the French army, the booty on which the Cossacks fell.
Because you're single-handedly destroying the universe.
She held up the hand holding the scenes of demons destroying the mortal world.
Besides extirpating the various sects of Protestants, they also busied themselves with destroying the Greek Church in Lithuania.
A combat which took place, at Mount Jackson, during the pursuit, again ended successfully, and the triumphant Federals retired down the Valley, ruthlessly destroying everything which might be of the slightest value to the enemy.
Sherman had now resolved to execute his plan of a march through Georgia to the sea and thence through the Carolinas towards Virginia, destroying everything of military value en route.
It was at this same time that Sherman broke up his railway communication, destroying Atlanta as a place of arms, and set out on his adventurous expedition.
AdvertisementThe ironclad ram "Albemarle," built at Edwards' Ferry on the Roanoke river, had done considerable damage to the Federal vessels which, since Burnside's expedition to Newberne, had cruised in Albemarle Sound, and in 1864 a force of double-enders and gunboats, under Captain Melancton Smith, U.S.N., was given the special task of destroying the rebel ram.
There was no majority in the Commons for the budget as such, since the Irish Nationalists only supported it as an engine for destroying the veto of the Lords and thus preparing the way for Irish Home Rule.
It is chiefly employed in destroying rats and other vermin, and in driving rabbits from their burrows.
It may suffice to mention that, under the leadership of Pigu Arslan Israil, they crossed the Oxus and spread over the eastern provinces of Persia, everywhere plundering and destroying.
Upon Milan and the cities of western Lombardy the hand of Attila seems to have weighed more lightly, plundering rather than utterly destroying; and at last when Pope Leo I., at the head of a deputation of Romall senators, appeared in his camp on the banks of the Mincio, entreating him not to pursue his victorious career to the gates of Rome, he yielded to their entreaties and consented to cross the Alps, with a menace, however, of future return, should the wrongs of Honoria remain unredressed.
AdvertisementDestroying the realm for a woman? the Other snapped.
For destroying the "Albemarle" he was thanked by Congress and was promoted to be lieutenant-commander.
The fact that the two components can be recovered from the compound by destroying it does not decide the question.
Although they held the town but a short time they inflicted very great damage, destroying many churches, further damaging the castles and carrying off much treasure.
The extreme parties now began to direct especial attention to propaganda in the army, with a view to destroying its cohesion and thus paralysing the action of the government.
AdvertisementThis however, may be due to irregularity of division and displacement of the cells by irregular tensions destroying the obvious layerec arrangement.
Aphidesand may be easily penetrated by certain Fungi such as Peziza, Nectria; and when thus attacked, the repeated conflicts between the cambium and callus, on the one hand, trying to heal over the wound, and the insect or Fungus, on the other, destroying the new tissues as they are formed, results in irregular growths; the still uninjured cambium area goes on thickening the branch, the dead parts, of course, remain unthickened, and the portion in which the Fungus is at work may for the time being grow more rapidly.
That wrought by man in destroying forests and cultivating the land will be no less effective, and already specimens in our herbaria alone represent species no longer to be found in a living state.
Carbolic acid is an efficient parasiticide, and is largely used in destroying the fungus of ringworm and of the skin disease known as pityriasis versicolor.
He first directed his attention to Novgorod, and by gradually undermining and then destroying the ancient republican liberties he reduced the haughty city, which had long styled itself Lord Novgorod the Great, to the rank of a provincial town.
AdvertisementRichelieu intercepted the letters, and by omissions and falsifications succeeded in destroying their mutual confidence.
When unhealthy situations cannot be avoided, they may be rendered more healthy by destroying the breeding-grounds of mosquitoes in the neighbourhood.
For a long time he could not endure the thought of destroying her, because he regarded her as an indispensable member of his "Accord," wherein she was to supply the place of Austria, whom circumstances had temporarily detached from the Russian alliance.
In 147 Jonathan repaid his benefactor by destroying the army of the governor of Coele-Syria, who had espoused the cause of Demetrius.
We learn that the destroying angel was stayed at the threshing-floor of Araunah the Jebusite,' and the spot thus sanctified was made a sanctuary, and commemorated by an altar.
Successful trials of sulphate of copper solution as a means of destroying charlock in corn crops took place in the years 1898-1900.
In many years quite half the apple crop is lost in England owing to the larvae destroying the fruit.
This procedure has its advantages, but it may easily become dangerous by destroying the influence of the science it is meant to preserve.
Moreover, the study of the theory of rent has had a very great influence on all branches of economics by destroying the notion that it is possible to draw sharp lines of distinction, or deal with economic conceptions as though they were entirely independent categories.
The Russians slowly retired before the invader, burning and destroying everything in his path.
The annexation of the Orange River Sovereignty in 1848 followed, finally destroying his hope of maintaining independent native states.
On the 9th-1 oth of November 1872 a terrible fire swept the business part of the city, destroying hundreds of buildings of brick and granite, and inflicting a loss of some $75,000,000.
Then he had stood with 420,000 men on a front of 160 m., now he had only 229,000 men on a front of 135; he had missed three great opportunities of destroying his enemy in detail, and in five weeks, during which time he had only traversed 200 m., he had seen his troops reduced numerically at least one-third, and, worse still, his army was now far from being the fighting machine it had been at the outset.
As at Krasnoi in 1812, they went straight for their enemy and after one of the most brilliant series of artillery movements in history, directed by General Drouot, they marched right over their enemy, practically destroying his whole force.
But on the 23rd of December, when Moore was at Sahagun and about to attack Soult, he learnt that overwhelming French forces were hastening towards him, so withdrew across the Esla, near Benevente (Dec. 28), destroying the bridge there.
Ozone at once attacks rubber, rapidly destroying it.
During the war of 1812 a British force occupied Bangor for several days (in September 1814), destroying vessels and cargoes.
At the beginning of 1857 tidings from China reached England of a rupture between the British plenipotentiary in that country and the governor of the Canton provinces in reference to a small vessel or lorcha called the "Arrow," which had resulted in the English admiral destroying the river forts, burning 23 ships belonging to the Chinese navy and bombarding the city of Canton.
A rise then came in the wages of agricultural labourers, but this had the unforeseen effect of destroying the union; for the labourers, deeming their object gained, ceased to "agitate."
During the war his services were wholly in the Channel, and he was engaged under Rodney in 1759 in destroying the vessels collected by the French to serve as transports in the proposed invasion of England.
There they show marked phagocytosis, attacking and taking up into their interior and destroying the micro-organisms in large numbers.
Note that the malignant cells are invading and destroying the muscle fibres of the heart.
Meanwhile Cohnheim and Metchnikoff were engaged in destroying the ontological conception not of fever only, but also of inflammation, of which, as a local event, an ontological conception was no less strongly implanted.
In politics proper he seems indeed to have had few or no constructive ideas, and to have been entirely ignorant or quite reckless of the fact that his attacks were destroying a state of things for which as a whole he neither had nor apparently wished to have any substitute.
The mildew is in its turn attacked by a fungus of the same tribe, Cicinnobolus Cesatii, which lives parasitically within the hyphae of its host, and at times even succeeds in destroying it.
The king disposed his men (the whole chapter is specially interesting for the full details it gives of the nature of ancient military operations), and after totally destroying Shechem, proceeded against Thebez, which had also revolted.
Pharmacology And Therapeutics Of Zinc Compounds Zinc chloride is a powerful caustic, and is prepared with plaster of Paris in the form of sticks for destroying warts, &c. Its use for this purpose at the present day is, however, very rare, the knife or galvanocautery being preferred in most cases.
After destroying Huremala and massacring its inhabitants, he arrived before Deraiya on the 14th of April 1818.
This evidence is confirmed by (a) the canon of Theodore of Edessa (800) allowing metropolitans of China, India and other distant lands to send their reports to the catholikos every six years; (b) the edict of Wu Tsung destroying Buddhist monasteries and ordering 300 foreign priests to return to the secular life that the customs of the empire might be uniform; (c) two 9th-century Arab travellers, one of whom, Ibn Wahhab, discussed the contents of the Bible with the emperor; (d) the discovery in 1725 of a Syrian MS. containing hymns and a portion of the Old Testament.
From 1858 to 1863 he was in the lower house of Congress, where he was noted for his strong opposition to the principles and policies of the growing Republican party, his belief that the South had been grievously wronged by the North, his leadership of the Peace Democrats or Copperheads, who were opposed to the prosecution of the war, and his bitter attacks upon the Lincoln administration, which, he said, was destroying the Constitution and would end by destroying civil liberty in the North.
The best mode of destroying cockroaches is, when the fire and 1 The word is a corruption of Sp. cucaracha.
The heirs of Jelal-ed-Din (Rumi) were favoured by the Osmanli sultans until 1516, when Selim was on the point of destroying the Mevlevi establishment as hostile to the Osmanli and the faith; and though he did not do so the Mevlevi and their chiefs were deprived of influence and dignity.
Unluckily for him his condemnation had the indirect effect of destroying his business at Tilbury.
The expedition which followed produced negative successes, but the absence of any positive success and the pressure of financial difficulty, coupled with the defection of Jason (probably before 37 1), and the high-handed action of Thebes in destroying Plataea (373), induced Athens to renew the peace with Sparta which Timotheus had broken.
He had already prepared for a further advance by making an expedition into the heart of Mississippi as far as Meridian, destroying railways and making impracticable, for a season, the transfer of military operations to that region; and on Grant becoming general-in-chief (March 1864) he was made commander of the military division of the Mississippi, including his Army of the Tennessee, now under McPherson, the Army of the Cumberland, under Thomas, and the Army of the Ohio, under Schofield.
Gold and Zinc.-When present in small quantities zinc renders gold TABLE II.-Gold brittle, but it may be added to gold in larger quantities without destroying the ductility of the precious metal; Peligot proved that a triple alloy of gold, copper and zinc, which contains 5.8% of the lastnamed, is perfectly ductile.
On account of their work in destroying plant-eating insects, the ichneumonflies are of great economic importance.
So far the operations had been confined to commerce destroying, or to the protection of trade by convoy.
As the foe would lie away to his right and left front after he had passed the Sambre, one wing would be pushed up towards Wellington and another towards Blucher; whilst the mass of the reserve would be centrally placed so as to strike on either side, as soon as a force of the enemy worth destroying was encountered and gripped.
The fatality by which Hercules kills so many friends as well as foes recalls the destroying Apollo; while his career frequently illustrates the Delphic views on blood-guiltiness and expiation.
When the Sons of Liberty, a society composed largely of unfranchised mechanics and artisans of New York City, which began to dominate the movement immediately after the Congress adjourned, resorted to mob violence - destroying property and burning in effigy the governor and other officers - the propertied classes drew back, and a few years later the popular or patriot party lost its control of the assembly.
Her perpetual intrigues and her political incapacity made Naples a prey to anarchy and foreign invasions, destroying all sense of patriotism and loyalty both in the barons and the people.
In the struggle, although he was bitterly accused of violating the written constitution, of arresting and destroying business prosperity and of attempting a radical departure from the accepted social system of the country, he was remarkably successful.
The Federal government bought the site in 1847 and after destroying the old forts began the erection of the present works.
The most destructive is Botrytis cinerea which forms orangebrown or buff specks on the stems, pedicels, leaves and flower-buds, which increase in size and become covered with a delicate grey mould, completely destroying or disfiguring the parts attacked.
It possesses all the active, courageous and bloodthirsty disposition of the rest of the genus, but its diminutive size prevents it attacking and destroying any but the smaller mammals and birds.
But at the beginning of 1766 Prince Nicholas Repnin was sent as Russian minister to Warsaw with instructions which can only be described as a carefully elaborated plan for destroying the Republic. The first weapon employed was the dissident question.
A force of 3800 British troops traversed their country, destroying their villages and grain, &c.
As to his public character, however, no agreement is possible between those who regard Caesarism as a great political creation, and those who hold that Caesar by destroying liberty lost a great opportunity and crushed the sense of dignity in mankind.
Leo XIII., while favouring them somewhat, never gave them his full confidence; and by his adhesion to the Thomist philosophy and theology, and his active work for the regeneration and progress of the older orders, he made another suppression possible by destroying much of their prestige.
In 676 he ravaged Kent with fire and sword, destroying the monasteries and churches and taking Rochester.
The dashing rider, Colonel Banastre Tarleton, cut to pieces (April 14, 1780) a detachment of Lincoln's cavalry, and followed it up by practically destroying Buford's Virginia regiment near the North Carolina border.
The tomb of William I., the founder's father - a magnificent porphyry sarcophagus contemporary with the church, under a marble pillared canopy - and the founder William II.'s tomb, erected in 1575, were both shattered by a fire, which in 1811 broke out in the choir, injuring some of the mosaics, and destroying all the fine walnut choir-fittings, the organs, and most of the choir roof.
They were so far amenable to human control that it was possible to take their increase without destroying the stock.
The reason is that Aristotle was primarily a metaphysician half for and half against Plato, occupied himself with metaphysics all his philosophical life, made the science of things the universal basis of all sciences without destroying their independence, and so gradually brought round philosophy from universal forms to individual substances.
Whenever he had an opportunity he destroyed a feudal castle, and by destroying the towers which commanded nearly every town in France, he freed such towns as Bourges, for instance, from their long practical subjection to the neighbouring great lord.
Beyond destroying the brick-and-mortar remains of feudalism, he did nothing for the people.
Here also Owen Glendower unfurled the banner of Welsh independence; from here, in 1401, he harassed the country, sacking Montgomery, burningWelshpool, and destroying Cwm Hir (long "combe," or valley) abbey, of which some columns are said to be now in Llanidloes old church..
The fungus-mycelium will go on growing indefinitely in the cambium layer, thus killing and destroying a larger area year by year.
Goldstein 7 was able to show that an increase in the current density is capable of destroying the well-known spectra of the alkali metals, replacing them by quite a new set of lines.
In making the essence of mind activity and construction, in destroying the separation of theoretical and practical reason, in asserting that mind thinks things as means to ends of the will, he prepared the way for Schopenhauer and other voluntarists.
This is his way of destroying Naturalism and Agnosticism.
The story told to Herodotus of its destroying snakes is, according to Savigny, devoid of truth, but Cuvier states that he discovered partly digested remains of a snake in the stomach of a mummied ibis.
The rotation, by destroying the contacts, preserves this unequal distribution, and carries B from A to C at the same time that the tail K connects the ball with the plate C. In this situation, the electricity in B acts upon that in C, and produces the contrary state, by virtue of the communication between C and the ball; which last must therefore acquire an electricity of the same kind with that of the revolving plate.
The general ordered a bombardment of the town for two days, destroying a number of houses and large quantities of merchandize.
In 1688 it was besieged by the French under Marshal de Boufflers, but they only succeeded in bombarding the Altstadt into ruins, destroying among other buildings the old merchants' hall (Kaufhaus), which was restored in its present form in 1725.
The conspiracy was regarded by Mendoza, the Spanish ambassador, one of its chief instigators, and also by Walsingham, as the most dangerous of recent years; it included, in its general purpose of destroying the government, a large number of Roman Catholics, and had ramifications all over the country.
Here she was hospitably received by Celeus, and out of gratitude would have made his son Demophon immortal by anointing him with ambrosia and destroying his mortal parts by fire; but Metaneira, happening to see what was going on, screamed out and disturbed the goddess.
The defence of the person who had been charged with destroying a moria, or sacred olive, places us amidst the country life of Attica.
The acts establish a close time for wild birds and impose penalties for shooting or taking them within that time; prohibit the exposing or offering for sale within certain dates any wild bird recently killed or taken unless bought or received from some person residing out of the United Kingdom; the taking or destroying of wild birds' eggs, the setting of pole traps, and the taking of a wild bird by means of a hook or other similar instrument.
A terrible pest is a kind of termite which is locally abundant and has probably visited most parts of Egypt at one time or another, destroying all dead vegetable or animal material in the soil that was not specially protected.
The Assyrians did not move against him, but a great Scythian horde, destroying all before it in its southward advance, is said by Herodotus to have been turned back by presents and entreaties.
On the following day Tokar was reached, and on the 2nd of March the force began its return to Suakin, bringing away about 700 people belonging to the late garrison and the civil population, and destroying 1250 rifles and a quantity of ammunition found in a neighboring village.
Ali's authority in the great part of the peninsula subject to him now overshadowed that of the sultan; and Mahmud II., whose whole policy had been directed to destroying the overgrown power of the provincial pashas, began to seek a pretext for overthrowing the Lion of Iannina,whose all-devouring ambition seemed to threaten his own throne.
The English did not attempt a winter blockade, but contented themselves with destroying all the supplies in the neighbourhood.
The king appears to have been avenging his private wrongs, or destroying the three nobles pour encourager les autres.
On behalf of their king, the Khwarizmian general Atsiz invaded Palestine and captured Jerusalem and Damascus, and then marched on Egypt to carry out his original purpose of destroying the Fatimites.
But when Fabre substituted dead individuals of her own species or live larvae of another genus, the Osmia had no scruple in destroying them, so as to bite her way out to air and liberty.
In the last month of the year 653 (January 1256) Hulaku or Hulagu, the brother of the great khan of the Mongols, crossed the Oxus, and began by destroying all the strongholds of the Isma'ilis.
A court-martial, assembled by order of a friendly admiralty, and presided over by a warm partisan, "most honourably acquitted" him on the charge "that, on the 12th of April, the enemy's ships being then on fire, and the signal having been made that they could be destroyed, he did, for a considerable time, neglect or delay taking effectual measures for destroying them"; but this decision was in reality nothing more than a party statement of the fact that a commander-in-chief, a supporter of the government, is not to be condemned or broken for not being a person of brilliant genius or dauntless resolution.
After destroying, it is said, 300,000 persons, and without being checked by any quarantine regulations, the plague died out finally in March 1771, being remarkable for its short duration and spontaneous limitation (Haser).
From the Valley the cavalry rode through the enemy's country to join Grant before Petersburg, fighting the action of Waynesboro', destroying communications and material of war, and finally reporting to the general-in-chief on the 25th of March 1865.
His fortunes, however, were not thereby seriously affected, for by this time his business capacity and organizing skill had enabled him to consolidate his position, in spite of the difficulties he had encountered not only from rival manufacturers but also from the working classes, who in 1779 displayed their antipathy to labour-saving appliances by destroying a large Trill he had erected near Chorley.
For a decade the natives enjoyed their independence, destroying nearly all vestiges of Spanish occupation, and venting their wrath particularly upon the churches.
All along its course the Volga is eroding and destroying its banks with great rapidity; towns and loading ports have constantly to be shifted farther back.
With a success and speed that contemporary writers deemed miraculous, Owen stirred up his countrymen against the king, and by their aid succeeded in destroying castle after castle, and burning town after town throughout the whole length and breadth of the land between the years 1401 and 1406.
For this purpose the tiger will leave its retreat in the dense jungle, proceed to the neighbourhood of a village or gowrie, where cattle feed, and during the night steal on and strike down a bullock, drag it into a secluded place, and then remain near the "murrie" or "kill," for several days, until it has eaten it, when it will proceed in search of a further supply, and, having found good hunting ground in the vicinity of a village or gowrie, continue its ravages, destroying one or two cows or buffaloes a week.
Animated by the patriotic enthusiasm of Cardinal Ximenes, the Spaniards determined to put a stop to these expeditions which were carrying off their countrymen, destroying their commerce, and even ravaging their country.
The Uplanders, however, still held out against it, and Adalhard, though he succeeded in destroying the idols in his own district Vestergotland, was unable to persuade Steinkel to destroy the old sanctuary at Upsala.
Sloth and carelessness speedily invaded every branch of the administration, destroying all discipline and leading to a general neglect of business.
The oyster being sedentary, except for a few days in the earliest stages of its existence, is easily exterminated in any given locality; since, although it may not be possible for the fishermen to rake up from the bottom every individual, wholesale methods of capture soon result in covering up or otherwise destroying the oyster banks or reefs, as the communities of oysters are technically termed.
The most destructive droughts recorded are those of 1711, 172 3, 1777-1778, 1790, 1825, 1844-1845, and 1877-1878, the last-mentioned destroying nearly all the live-stock in the state, and causing the death through starvation and pestilence of nearly half-a-million people, or over half the population.
The high temperature characteristic of this condition is no doubt injurious to the body itself, but it is frequently more so to the microbe which has invaded the organism; and thus fever, instead of now being regarded as a morbid condition to be suppressed by every means in our power, is considered to be a reaction of the organism tending to protect it by destroying the infection.
The treatment of inflammation of mucous membrane is based upon the same principles as inflammation of the skin, and there too we usually associate means (I) for removing microbes, (2) for destroying them, (3) for lessening the irritation they produce, and (4) for repairing any mischief they have done.
Originally a contraband manufacturer of salt, Cottereau along with his brothers had several times been condemned and served sentence; but the Revolution, by destroying the inland customs, ruined his trade.
At the beginning of his reign the religious fervour which had sustained the Almoravide dynasty was rapidly subsiding; in Portugal independent Moorish chiefs ruled over cities and petty states, ignoring the central government; in Africa the Almohades were destroying the remnants of the Almoravide power.
Between December 1849 and June 1851 seven " great " fires, destroying in the aggregate property valued at twenty or twenty-five millions of dollars, swept the business district.
Schizomycetes exist in every part of the alimentary canal of animals, except, perhaps, where acid secretions prevail; these are by no means necessarily harmful, though, by destroying the teeth for instance, certain forms may incidentally be the forerunners of damage which they do not directly cause.
Then as regards natural powers of destroying bacteria, phagocytosis aided by chemiotaxis plays a part, and it can be understood that an animal whose phagocytes are attracted by a particular bacterium will have an advantage over one in which this action is absent.
Ten prisoners, convicted of destroying the property of the mine-owners, were sentenced to twenty-two months in jail.
As it was, while they slavishly clung to its substance, they succeeded, as a rule, in destroying all traces of its original form and colouring.
He had at one time dreamed of destroying the Roman power, of turning Romania into Gothia, and putting Ataulphus in the stead of Augustus; but he had learned that the world could be governed only by the laws of Rome and he had determined to use the Gothic arms for the support of the Roman power.
A disastrous flood, caused by heavy rains and the sudden overflow of the Santa Catarina river on the 28th of August 1909, swept away about one-fourth of the city, drowning1200-1400persons, and destroying about $12,000,000 (Mex.) worth of property.
The Rohillas were defeated by Colonel Champion in April 1774, and the majority of them fled across the Ganges; but the charges of destroying a nation, brought against Hastings by Burke and Macaulay, were greatly exaggerated.
Externally the nitrate has a caustic action, destroying the superficial tissues and separating the part acted on as a slough.
It was in vain that his correspondents pointed out the discrepancy between his professed zeal for Italian liberties, his recent enthusiasm for the Roman republic, and this alliance with tyrants who were destroying the freedom of the Lombard cities.
Then he wept and mourned beyond what seemed to his other followers the bounds of propriety, exclaiming that Heaven was destroying him.
Unable to marry Stella without destroying Vanessa, or to openly welcome Vanessa without destroying Stella, he was ' thus involved in the most miserable embarrassment; he continued to temporize.
A letter of Pope Boniface helped to decide him, and after consulting his friends and counsellors, of whom the priest Coifi afterwards took a prominent part in destroying the temple at Goodmanham, he was baptized with his people and nobles at York, at Easter 627.
To refuse to submit to fasting was considered indelibly disgraceful, and was one of the things which legally degraded a man by reducing or destroying his honour-value.
Every man, as Wycliffe taughtusing the feudal analogies of contemporary societyis Gods tenant-inchief, directly responsible for his acts to his overlord; the pope is always thrusting himself in between, like a mesne-tenant, and destroying the touch between God and man by his interference.
Thus we feel it in its motion as wind, and observe the dynamical effects of this motion in the quiver of the leaf or the motion of a sailing ship. It offers resistance to the passage of bodies through it, destroying their motion and transforming their energy - as is betrayed to our hearing in the whiz of the rifle bullet, to our sight in the flash of the meteor.
Wharfinger states that in chlorosis the specific action of iron is only obtained by administering those inorganic preparations which give a reaction with the ordinary reagents; the iron ions in a state of dissociation act as a catalytic agent, destroying the hypothetical toxin which is the cause of chlorosis.
The Commune of Paris and the journalists who were its mouthpieces, Hebert and Marat, aimed frankly at destroying the Girondins.
Erysiple graminis, a mildew of grasses, has caused great loss in various countries; Dilophia graminis sometimes causes deformities of the leaves and inflorescence; another somewhat similar fungus, Ophiobolus graminis, attacks the leaves and stalks near the ground, completely destroying the plants.
And no theory which limits the exercise of freedom to the choice only of what is strictly good or rational can avoid the imputation of destroying man's responsibility for the choice of evil.
The volcanic ash frequently proves extremely harmful, destroying the pastures so that the sheep and cattle die of hunger and disease.
In February and March heavy gales are frequent, and hurricanes sometimes occur, causing scarcity by destroying the crops.
After undergoing great hardship the Nemedians succeeded in destroying the fortress and in slaying the enemies' leaders, but the Fomorians received reinforcements from Africa.
Speaking at Cincinnati on the 23rd of February 1880, he declared that the first thing necessary was to undermine English power by destroying the Irish landlords.
On the other hand, he holds that the destroying nature of the sphinx was much older, and he refers to instances in both Egyptian and Greek art where a sphinx is seen seizing and standing upon a man.
But the chance of annexing them without great trouble was lost; by the fatal custom of appanages the Valois had set up again those feudal institutions which the Capets had found such difficulty in destroying, and Louis XI.
This massacre had the effect of preventing the expedition into Flanders, and destroying Francis Is policy of alliance with the Protestants against the house of Austria.
With the object of destroying Calvinism by effective opposition, they imitated the Protestant organization of provincial associations, drawing their chief supporters from the upper middle class and the lesser nobility.
The disinterested peace of Aix-la-Chapelle (October 1748) had no effectual result other than that of destroying in Germany, and for the benefit of Prussia, a balance of power that had yet to be secured in Italy, despite the establishment of the Spanish prince Philip at Parma.
About the year 520 the Frisians are said to have joined the Frankish prince Theodberht in destroying a piratical expedition which had sailed up the Rhine under Chocilaicus (Hygelac), king of the Gotar.
To Ghazali (q.v.) it seemed that the study of secular philosophy had resulted in a general indifference to religion, and that the Ghazal, scepticism scepticism which concealed itself under a pretence of piety was destroying the life and purity of the nation.
Nothing loth, he established a revolutionary tribunal, and formed a body of desperate men, called the Legion of Marat, for the purpose of destroying in the swiftest way the masses of prisoners heaped in the jails.
The influence of Liberal Unionist views upon the domestic legislation of the government was steadily bringing about a more complete union in the Unionist party, and destroying the old lines of political cleavage.
But his religious reform was unpopular, especially among the women, who killed an official who, by the emperor's command, was destroying an image of Christ in the vestibule of the imperial palace of Chalce.
A Syrian official record from this reign, preserved in the Edessene Chronicle, gives a somewhat detailed account of a violent flood (autumn, 201) of the Daisan river which did much damage, destroying 1 The inscription, which is difficult to read, connects the structure with Shalmat the queen, daughter of Ma`nu, who cannot be identified with certainty, and refers to some image(s), which probably excited the pious vandalism of the Arabs.
The action of tannic acid is strictly local, and depends upon its power of precipitating albumen and of destroying germs. It thus acts as an astringent on all mucous membranes.
This is either by inhibiting the growth of micro-organisms (Antiseptics) or by destroying them when present (Disinfectants).
Alberti solved the problem with marvellous skill, blending the old architecture with the new style of the Renaissance, and giving it variety without destroying its unity of effect.
If this is true, Jonny is worth destroying a city for any vamp with an itch to off the Black God.
She'd make him proud and protect him and the rest of the Guardians from her father, even if destroying her father took her own life.
We're managed by a council that very poorly oversees Immortal activities in the mortal world and fights demons to keep the underworld dwellers from destroying the human world.
I'm destroying all Qatwali and Yirkin on the surface of Anshan.
Four keys capable of destroying a continent—and winning a war—were taken under their noses.
The only other thing that made him feel alive was killing and destroying – the demon side of him that always won out.
Darian felt sick, understanding just how cunning the Watchers had been in their pursuit of destroying their enemies, the Others.
Is it worth destroying Tiyan to win?
Xander remembered her older and realized he had always viewed Eden through the eyes of the child who embarked on a journey with the Oracle obsessed with destroying the last Grey God.
The key to destroying a world – him – was in the hands of those who couldn't be trusted with such power.
Trapped between Jonny and the Original Other, she hadn't been able to say anything she wanted to, when he made his declaration about destroying the world.
He was in control – complete control – even when destroying the world.
Obstructing an investigation is an offense, and covers altering, concealing or destroying documents, or attempting to obstruct justice.
Many chemotherapy treatments employ DNA alkylation as a means of destroying cancerous cells.
Athanasius charges Arianism with dualism, and even polytheism, and with destroying the whole doctrine of salvation.
American antiaircraft artillery met the challenge by destroying more than 300 enemy aircraft.
Instead of destroying the market economy, Americans are engaged in the slow process of superseding capitalism.
The struggle between the militarist cliques is destroying what remains of the unity of the country.
As one Colombian representative said, ' Why spend money on destroying coca?
This was sheer effrontery of Macmillan when he was the one who was destroying democracy.
Objectives differ according to the mode, but all basically consist of destroying capital ship emplacements such as radars, communications and engines.
Capt. KNOWLES was employed in destroying the fortifications at Porto Bello after its capture on 22 November.
Nizoral works by destroying the fungus that causes the infection.
Yet large parts of the establishment seem hellbent on destroying it.
Their comparatively huge weight can cause soil to be compacted by their hooves, eventually destroying its structure.
Selenium Selenium is also important in the process of destroying hydrogen peroxide.
On Thursday, large numbers of American and British aircraft were destroying Iraqi air defenses as a prelude to ground incursions.
What the swarming locust left, the hopping locust has eaten, and what the hopping locust left, the destroying locust has eaten.
Phase 1 of the development has already taken place, destroying mangroves and large areas of Bimini's pristine habitat and coastline.
Well, I'm sorry - but if rejecting materialism means destroying the property of others; then I don't understand.
If sunlight is continuously destroying methane on Titan, how is methane getting into the atmosphere?
The proposed US facility would be capable of destroying 800 metric tons of weaponized agents each year.
Our immune system protects us from disease, destroying invading microbes with a swarm of attacking cells.
Appeals blared from the mosque minarets implored people to stop destroying the city, the Arab language TV al-Jazeera reported.
But the fires burn out of control, destroying the Anglo-Saxon minster and killing many Normans.
In 1970, for example, a blight spread quickly through America's vast maize monocultures, destroying more than 10 million acres of corn.
However, destroying shrines belies your efforts to present a better version of your Islamic monotheism.
A few years later the entire team appeared to perish destroying once and for all the alien overlord behind Gallacter.
A giant robot ship has wandered into the galaxy and is destroying planets in its path, digesting the debris for fuel.
We start with Marconi destroying this threat by himself using a hand-held rocket launcher at close range - which everyone agrees is very impressive.
Damp gets in through a leaky roof, destroying decorations and weakening the structure.
Until you discover how to break free, the " no money trap " is often self-perpetuating and certainly soul destroying.
The fragmentation of Charlemagne's realm continued, destroying any semblance of unity.
This includes the complete destruction of stockpiled anti-personnel mines in 28 countries, with 19 states parties in the process of destroying stockpiles.
Firstly, you can plow into them single-handedly, destroying vast swathes of them in a single sweep of your overpowered sword.
Parliament passed a law that meant anyone who was caught destroying a turnpike could be executed.
James continued the vendettas himself, destroying the power of the once mighty Black Douglases.
So we are now banned from hunting vermin with dogs, but are gleefully destroying valuable food species.
They can be extremely vicious and are destroying masses of our wildlife.
It was at the opening of parliament that Shaftesbury made his celebrated "delenda est Carthago" speech against Holland, in which he urged the Second Dutch War, on the ground of the necessity of destroying so formidable a commercial rival to England, excused the Stop of the Exchequer which he had opposed, and vindicated the Declaration of Indulgence.
Mill's various readings, numbering about thirty thousand, were attacked by Daniel Whitby (1638-1726) in his Examen as destroying the validity of the text; Antony Collins also argued in the same sense though with a different object.
It would be impossible to exaggerate the importance of this revolution, which ended by destroying the last vestige of feudality, and prepared that common Italian people which afterwards distinguished itself by the creation of European culture.
Suspicion was not aroused until March 1883, when Mancini, in defending himself against strictures upon his refusal to co-operate with Great Britain in Egypt, practically revealed the existence of the treaty, thereby irritating France and destroying Depretiss secret hope of finding in the triple alliance the advantage of an Austro-German guarantee without the disadvantage of French en.mity.
Some are true germicides, capable of destroying the bacteria, whilst others merely prevent or inhibit their growth.
Hence it is that the "antiseptic" method has been replaced in the surgery of to-day by the "aseptic" method (see Surgery), which relies on keeping free from the invasion of bacteria rather than destroying them when present.
An inundation of the Tiber swept away a large part of Rome, destroying fields, drowning cattle, and causing a famine (162); then came earthquakes, fires and plagues of insects; the soldiers in Britain tried to induce their general Statius Priscus to proclaim himself emperor; finally, the Parthians under Vologaeses III.
If this pressure is not relieved in some way, the train may be derailed either (I) by " climbing " the outer rail, with injury to that rail and, generally, to the corresponding wheel-flanges; (2) by overturning about the outer rail as a hinge, possibly without injury to rails or wheels; or (3) by forcing the outer rail outwards, occasionally to the extent of shearing the spikes that hold it down at the curve, thus spreading or destroying the track.
The bold criticism of Middleton's recently (174.9) published Free Enquiry into the Miraculous Powers which are supposed to have subsisted in the Christian Church appears to have given the first shock to his Protestantism, not indeed by destroying his previous belief that the gift of miraculous powers had continued to subsist in the church during the first four or five centuries of Christianity, but by convincing him that within the same period most of the leading doctrines of popery had been already introduced both in theory and in practice.
Aphides are provided with a mealy skin, which does not allow water to be attached to it, and thus insecticides for destroying them contain soft soap, which fixes the solution to the skin; paraffin is added to corrode the skin, and the up the breathing pores and so produces asphyxiation.
It was indeed by no means impossible that Jerusalem might have been altogether undone by the famine caused by the locusts; and so the conception of these visitants as the destroying army, executing Yahweh's final judgment, is really much more natural than appears to us at first sight, and does not need to be explained away by allegory.
The centre of Florence, which was becoming a danger from a hygienic point of view, was pulled down in 1880-1890, but, unfortunately, sufficient care was not taken to avoid destroying certain buildings of historic and artistic value which might have been spared without impairing the work of sanitation, while the new structures erected in their place, especially those in the Piaza Vittorio Emanuele, are almost uniformly ugly and quite out of keeping with Florentine architecture.
Now by the Malicious Damage Act 1861 the unlawful and malicious destroying or damaging any picture, statue, monument or other memorial of the dead, painted glass or other monument or work of art, in any church, chapel, meeting-place or other place of divine worship is a misdemeanour punishable by imprisonment for six months, and in the case of a male under the age of sixteen years with whipping.
In 1136, while the count was in Normandy, Robert of Sable put himself at the head of the movement, to which Geoffrey responded by destroying Briollay and occupying La Suze, and Robert of Sable himself was forced to beg humbly for pardon through the intercession of the bishop of Angers.
Since Metchnikoff's introduction (see Longevity) of the use of soured milk for dietetic purposes-the lactic acid bacillus destroying pathogenic bacteria in the intestine-a great impetus has been given to the multiplication of laboratory preparations containing 'cultures of the bacillus; and in recent years much benefit to health has, in certain cases, been derived from the discovery.
Caesar, who had been hastily summoned from Illyricum, crossed the Loire and invaded Brittany, but found that he could make no headway without destroying the powerful fleet of high, flat-bottomed boats like floating castles possessed by the Veneti.
The process of reckless deforestation is perceptible in certain districts, the natives often destroying a whole tree for a plank or rafter.
Bach contrives to give this anti-climax a definite artistic value; all the more from the fact that his Crucifixus and Resurrexit, and the contrast between them, are among the most sublime and directly impressive things in all music. To the end of his Resurrexit chorus he appends an orchestral ritornello, summing up the material of the chorus in the most formal possible way, and thereby utterly destroying all sense of finality as a member of a large group, while at the same time not in the least impairing the force and contrast of the whole - that contrast having ineffaceably asserted itself at the moment when it occurred.
Wolves (C. Bengalensis) are formidable in the wilder tracts, and assemble in troops on the snow, destroying cattle and sometimes attacking single horsemen.
The reader who is not familiar with the eccentricities of the Tubingen school will doubtless be surprised to learn that the Paul who thus quietly slips in at the close of the drama was himself all along the disguised villain of the plot, the very Simon Magus whom he comes to assist Peter in destroying (see below).
It had been Castlereaghs conception and, had it been as well executed as it was conceived, it might have dealt a fatal blow at Napoleons hopes of recovering his power at sea, by destroying his great naval establishments at Antwerp. It failed, and it became the subject of angry dispute between Canning and Castlereagh, a dispute embittered by personal rivalry and the friction due to the illdefined relations of the foreign secretary to the secretary for war; the quarrel culminated in a duel, and in the resignation of both ministers (see LONDONDERRY, 2ND MARQUESS OF, and CANNING, GEORGE).
Success is now defined by creating, not destroying.
Miss Keller will never be able, I believe, to speak loud without destroying the pleasant quality and the distinctness of her words, but she can do much to make her speech clearer.
God grant that the Corsican monster who is destroying the peace of Europe may be overthrown by the angel whom it has pleased the Almighty, in His goodness, to give us as sovereign!
Kutuzov fell back toward Vienna, destroying behind him the bridges over the rivers Inn (at Braunau) and Traun (near Linz).
Kutuzov alone at last gains a real victory, destroying the spell of the invincibility of the French, and the Minister of War does not even care to hear the details.
Destroying the army, destroying the men!
We too will take part..." the reader went on, and then paused ("Do you see," shouted the youth victoriously, "he's going to clear up the whole affair for you...."), "in destroying them, and will send these visitors to the devil.
And only that feeling placed him on that highest human pedestal from which he, the commander-in-chief, devoted all his powers not to slaying and destroying men but to saving and showing pity on them.
So the historians of this class, by mutually destroying one another's positions, destroy the understanding of the force which produces events, and furnish no reply to history's essential question.
Riveted ring mail construction is a mind destroying process.
The shockwaves ruck up the planet 's surface like a carpet, destroying most of the civilized world.
Fanatical field assistant attempts to smoke portion of dried scat sample and unwittingly ignites canvas tent, destroying hair samples.
The Israeli government is a barbaric regime that is systematically destroying vestiges of Palestinian self-rule.
The fragmentation of Charlemagne 's realm continued, destroying any semblance of unity.
His dying wish is to be buried at sea in his submersible ship, and in turn destroying the last remnant of his discoveries.
A tornadoes path can be very selective, destroying homes directly in it path, while neighboring ones are untouched.
Thousands had to be spent at Selsey in January when a twister ripped through the town, destroying homes.
Then 18th-century musicians bemoaned the florid and vapid new style of Italian virtuosity which was destroying the true art on which they grew up.
Roman war chariots formed the initial ruts, which everyone else had to match for fear of destroying their wagon wheels.
Outfit your home in style without destroying your budget when you buy patio furniture discounted.
Choosing a guitar for a child who has a track record of destroying belongings might mean that the cost of the guitar should be the largest factor.
It can be truly frustrating when you love a pet with all your heart, yet that animal is destroying furniture or other items that cost hundreds and sometimes thousands of dollars.
The women's movement in the 1960s is frequently blamed for destroying family values.
Nonrenewable energy is produced by the burning, splitting or destroying of another resource.
The chlorine reacts with oxygen, which leads to the chemical process of destroying ozone molecules."
The goals of viruses can by anything, from destroying data, to locking up your system, to just messing up your computer.
Behavioral signs might include displaying aggressive behaviors, throwing or destroying objects or being argumentative.
Some evidence suggests that cooking, while destroying some digestive enzymes, is still better for digestion overall and that this affects development.
What each couple wants to do for trashing a gown depends on their personalities, and how far they are willing to go in destroying the gown.
It's time for an intervention when the harmful side effects of alcohol are destroying a person and standing in the way of change.
Buying toddler holiday dresses years in advance is the way many parents can afford extravagant designs without destroying their bank accounts.
A Goldie Poo shut in an apartment all day is prone to begin destroying things out of boredom and loneliness.
The water can then rise up over the gutters, or leak behind them, destroying the exterior of your home and leaking into your attic space.
It includes microbial flora, which enter your soil and improve it while destroying nematodes and fungus.
To make more sunny spots for coffee to grow, indigenous trees are cut down, destroying ecosystems and threatening wildlife.
Out of 60 fruits and vegetables tested in a recent study conducted by Tufts University, for antioxidant properties, blueberries were number one for destroying free radicals.
You'll protect your eyes without destroying your ability to see.
These consisted of dramatically smaller pinball arenas where players are assigned a specific task like destroying all the enemy robots on screen or knocking out Robotnik's mechanical teeth.
After destroying the second box, go down the hill to some houses.
Connecting three or more regular stones in a string with the power gem will cause the power gem to explode spectacularly, destroying a number of adjacent gems and scoring a satisfying round of points.
You play US Army Ranger Sgt Nathan Hale who is fighting alongside British troops to try and stop the Chimera from destroying what's left of humanity.
You don't shoot through levels destroying bad guys or solve puzzles for the highest score.
Demons are destroying the land, and the only hope is for you to escape the confines of prison and find the Emperor's lost son to bring back balance.
Use weapons, magic and your wits to stop the chaos from destroying their world.
You usually have the option to attack another player in some way, which usually results in stealing resources from them or at least destroying some of their resources.
I thought I could just move through areas after destroying the monsters I would encounter.
Meanwhile, Aries is busy destroying the city of Athens, and though the other gods had the power to stop him, Zeus -- father of all gods -- forbade them to fight one another directly.
Join her in her quest to save her family and stop Thorn, the King of the Trolls, from destroying all magic and bringing chaos to all the land.
She must stop Thorn from destroying all magic and the lands from chaos.
Will the Fellowship succeed in destroying the Ring of Power, or will Sauron destroy Middle Earth?
However, Dr. Wily soon turned to villainy and was bent on destroying the world.
Animate one of them by destroying their shield, and find a way to get him near the edge by the waterfall area you just crossed.
In this new version, Sonic explores the world of Arabian Nights where he encounters an evil genie bent on destroying the classic tales in order to escape and create chaos in the real world.
Win by gaining points for destroying enemy units and objects.
Players entered the seat of Luke's X-Wing fighter and battled TIE fighters on the way to destroying the Death Star in the famous trench scene.
Guts is asked to help the country live through the plague by destroying the plants, monsters, and eventually the man who created it all.
A laboratory has been burned down, destroying evidence of a new biological weapon someone was creating.
Bomb Bag 3 is acquired by destroying the rock barriers for the River Canoe mini-game owner.
In other words, by destroying one set of balls, you create a new string of 3 or more balls of the same color, they will also burst, and so on.
Meteor is an adventure in destroying enemy spaceships and bricks containing ninety levels with a huge array of obstacles.
The T cells recognize these proteins and make certain chemicals that are capable of destroying the virus-infected cells.
Their use is controversial because such stem cells cannot be used in research without destroying the living embryo.
Hemolytic means that these streptococci are capable of destroying red blood cells.
Covert antisocial behaviors in early childhood may include noncompliance, sneaking, lying, or secretly destroying another's property.
Some advocate the use of visualization strategies, in which patients are encouraged to visualize the immune cells of their body attacking and destroying the cancer cells.
The T cells can recognize these proteins and produce certain chemicals (cytokines) that are capable of destroying the virus-infected cells.
Another removal process is electrocautery (electric burning), destroying the wart by burning it with an electric needle.
Hostility can take the form of physical or verbal fighting, invading each other's privacy, or destroying each other's possessions.
Another anatomic procedure is neurolysis, also called a nerve block, which involves destroying a portion of a peripheral nerve.
This allows the phagocytes to begin engulfing and destroying the organism.
In later stages, soft gummy lesions may form in the nasal passages, destroying nasal cartilage and in the roof of the mouth, even breaking through the mouth palate.
The exotoxin is carried throughout the body in the bloodstream, destroying healthy tissue in other parts of the body.
Ionizing radiation-Radiation that can damage living tissue by disrupting and destroying individual cells at the molecular level.
Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is a way to inactivate the parts of the brain thought to cause overactivity or tremor in certain muscles, without destroying a part of the brain.
This is because each element interacts with the remaining four in specific ways by either supporting or destroying them.
The manufacturer, Wein Products, claims it rids the air of dust, odors and cigarette smoke while destroying bacteria and viruses at a production rate of 120 trillion ions per second.
You can either play the Hero of the town, or play as a Zombie, bent on destroying everyone who plays on the heroes' side.
Problems often grow more quickly than anticipated, and by leaving them unresolved the couple risks destroying the relationship they have built together.
The green-eyed monster is one of the worst things for destroying a perfectly good relationship.
The best approach is to choose a moderate quality gem rather than the cheapest stone available; this way, the couple will still have a quality gem without destroying their budget.
Since they are contained, you don't need to worry about them destroying the house.
With "No Adults Allowed!" emblazoned on its homepage, children become HogBusters - a group of environmentalists dedicated to squelching the Energy Hog's efforts at destroying the earth.
Dr. Clennell proposed that the methane gas erupting into the atmosphere could ignite from the internal combustion airplane engines and explode, destroying the plane in the process.
With features like shock absorbing soles and Fast Twist and metal thread receptacles which are present to aid traction without destroying the golf green, you can play for hours not ever having to think about your foot comfort.
The fourth season matured the characters and the situations they encountered including Paige facing down her rapist in court and later destroying his car.
When Victor was believed dead, Adam moved to take over his company, fired his siblings and other longtime Newman employees and destroying many of his father's things.
Not to be deterred, Greenlee worked actively to sabotage their relationship, eventually destroying the couple before growing bored with Scott and moving on to new conquests.
Airline security forces may rightfully assume that an unattended bag is a bomb, forcefully opening and destroying it in the process.
It offers stiffer criminal penalties for securities fraud, defrauding shareholders and destroying or altering records in federal investigations.
Vitamin A, C, E and the mineral, selenium, known as the ACES, have been found to be the answer to destroying free radical activity.
Cooking is a process of destruction and destroying... you are literally destroying nutrients, water, minerals, cell structure... you are using destructive forces of fire.
He ended up destroying the picture and causing quite a scene.
She is looking for a way to get into the entertainment industry without destroying her relationship with her family.
After destroying some property, he was warned that his behavior would not be tolerated.
It's an elimination match, with eventually only Ripley (and the ship's cat) surviving via the the escape pod, destroying the Nostradomo behind her.
On the brink of destroying the Skynet's main central hub, Connor learned that a terminator has been sent back in time to kill his mother before she can conceive and bear him.
The plot followed the Enterprise as they searched for the Xindi and sought information about their devastating weapon and their motives behind destroying Earth.
Yes, the Rebellion had not succeeded in vanquishing the evil Emperor, but they had scored a signal victory, destroying the planet-killing Death Star battlestation and getting away with it.
Wooden stakes are only part of the formula for destroying a vampire.
Using the knife to travel from world to world is, in effect, destroying the entire universe.
They succeeded in destroying the 'queens' of the bugger race, effectively dooming them.
They also face danger from the Crusade, a fictional fanatical Catholic association bent on destroying anyone with psychic power; and the Brotherhood, a company who seeks to use anyone with psychic talent to maximize their profits.
Likewise, the movie Cloverfield took the well-explored genre of the giant monsters destroying a city and made it entirely new.
Chronicling the exploits of Zim, an alien visitor bent on destroying earth, his frenetic and hilarious robot GIR, and Dib, his archenemy, Invader Zim took a dark and witty look at modern life.
Superman and Batman were already cult favorites, and countless other comics featured muscular superheroes destroying countless villains across the Universe.
These nine form the Fellowship of the Ring and dedicate their lives to keeping the One Ring from Sauron and destroying it.