Word: destroyed
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...effect of being convicted on 41 counts will destroy whatever credibility Walsh had left. It would be unfair to his constituents to try to represent them with such a tarnished reputation and credibility; their interests will be put in jeopardy by the lowered stature of their representative. In addition, the considerable time that Walsh will have to take in his appeal process will further limit his effectiveness as a councillor...
WHEN ASKED TO MUSE ON THE avant-garde of the generation before his own, the man who became perhaps the most influential avant-garde dramatist of the 20th century savored the historical irony. "They all wanted to destroy culture," he said, "and now they're part of our heritage." The same thing happened to the father of "theater of the absurd" (he preferred the label theater of derision, saying, "It's not a certain society that seems ridiculous to me, it's mankind"). In 1950, Eugene Ionesco's The Bald Soprano opened in Paris to catcalls, and a performance...
...important to me as a woman's right to choose might be to her. And claims about the imposition of my cigarette smoke on an abstract "society" are as wrong-headed as ideas that a woman's decision to do what she wants with her body will destroy the future of "society." In an effort to protect the community from the minority, we are trampling on what makes our community worth living...
...undersea loudspeakers, one sunk off the coast of California near Big Sur, the other near the Hawaiian island of Kauai. A blast from one of these big woofers would be loud enough to be heard in the water for thousands of miles--and loud enough to damage or destroy the hearing of any animal that swam too close...
...rabbinical collation of oral law interpreting the Bible. As for those who think the Romans would not have contemplated an execution on the basis of Jewish religious disputes, Brown notes that 30 years later Jewish leaders sentenced Jesus, the son of Ananias, to death for prophesying that God would destroy the Temple. The Romans, however, found the defendant insane and never executed...