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Destroy slugs and snails or put them in a bag and toss them in the garbage.
Don't let a computer failure destroy your precious memories.
However, the government can do a lot of things to destroy confidence.
He is willing to destroy our country rather than admit that he has made some major mistakes.
By means of some such quip he was accustomed to paralyze his victims with laughter and then to destroy them.
Leptin has several roles, but one is to encourage cells to oxidise lipids and thus destroy them.
Some animal venoms can destroy nerve cells, and these are termed neurotoxins.
The antigens train the immune system to recognize and destroy those microbes should they ever appear in the body.
Narrative, description and quotation illustrate a universal tendency to overfish and destroy.
It seems that someone had given the order to destroy their records.
House owners were told to destroy the extra rooms they had built in their courtyards and rented out.
But if it doesn't destroy you, it will surely make you more hardy.
It is the weapon of those who wish to destroy education.
Ozone can be used to destroy a number of known contaminants and pathogens.
Publishers' real concern is that the low price of digital books will destroy bookstores, which are their primary customers.
Conscious attempts to eliminate the factional spirit would not promote liberty but instead destroy it.
But oil and gas projects will require new roads, and roads destroy forests and damage wildlife habitats.
But the high temperatures can destroy some nutrients too.
Even if the virus continued to destroy the patient's immune cells, new ones that could not be infected would replace them.
Gravity works: it is easier to destroy than to build.
In some countries it was able to remove or destroy almost everything.
Technology has made it possible to completely destroy individuals with gossip.
Received wisdom has it that three-quarters of mergers fail to create shareholder value and half actually destroy it.
If the drives were connected to centrifuges, this could damage or destroy the machines.
Some of them told us how it would destroy the airplane.
Lava can burn, bury, and destroy everything in its path.
Repeated applications are usually needed to destroy the root system.
Many small mouths can destroy a body faster than one big one.
Researchers are using this ultrashort-pulse laser to destroy the protein shell of viruses.
Our college football teams can destroy their teams any day of the week.
Instead, technologies rise up and destroy each other.
It could also make it possible to destroy tumors that are inoperable or won't respond to current treatment.
She was working on a story about global disasters and asked if a collision with another universe could destroy the planet.
Certainly it should be moved, but they shouldn't destroy it.
And you can't play to an audience who hates you because they'll, umm, leave or destroy you.
If a vaccine causes the immune system to destroy infected cells, the cancer will be killed anyway.
Enthusiasm contended with a sense of futility, and the urge to create with the compulsion to destroy.
He thinks that the mysterious noise eliminator is a threat to his power, and he wants to destroy him.
If you must commit a crime do not advertise it beforehand, since otherwise your enemies may destroy you before you destroy them.
In truth, small businesses create jobs when they start up or expand, and they destroy jobs when they shrink or close.
It is about the vicious use of false reasons to destroy professors.
One would think that open-pit coal mining would destroy fossils.
If they do not destroy the bug, they soon will not be able to compete.
The major effect is that they can destroy exports, so industry and tourism takes a nose dive.
That's because grooming snow on ski slopes can disturb the snow-hibernating creatures or destroy their habitat.
Experts predict this would in effect destroy the lakes and their surrounding freshwater wetlands.
Electricity starts many fires that destroy property.
The potent radiation would cook the atmosphere, creating nitrogen oxides that would destroy the ozone layer.
Hunt suspected that humans alone could not destroy the forests this quickly.
Loggers also destroy silky habitat when they cut down, illegally, valuable rosewood trees.
Driven by the almighty dollar, and an absurd honor code, football players destroy themselves with multiple concussions.
Previous studies have shown that losing a few key workers can destroy an insect society.
The military gets their hands on it and promptly uses it to destroy all living things on the planet.
Injuries and surgeries that destroy a particular part of the brain can give some hints about how the brain records time in memory.
Destroy the misconceptions by having students read primary sources they would not pick up on their own.
The foundation rejected a request two years ago to destroy the tapes.
Unchecked, the sea urchins can destroy an entire forest.
Additionally, tractors and skidders used to remove the hardwoods destroy the forest floor and promote additional logging.
It took him years of legal battling and lobbying to get permission to destroy the historic building.
When the engineered viruses recognize and infect cancer cells, they replicate and sometimes destroy their hosts.
We try to destroy dreamers, lest dreamers destroy the status quo.
Losing this case would bankrupt them and destroy their reputations.
Everyone favors adult-stem-cell research: the only fight is over experiments that destroy embryos.
To spare you is no profit, to destroy you is no loss.
Falling into the trap of this globalist socialism will destroy the precious brotherhood of our country.
He maintains that notching would destroy the chances of ever completing the dam-something that the corps denies.
Avoid using poisons, that once entered into the food-chain, will destroy more than cats.
In the face of overweening globalisation, to destroy the twin towers was the only response.
If the detonator is exposed, they may continue firing to dislodge or destroy it.
Global warming is one of the biggest hoax ever, created to destroy the economy of the big countries.
He removed the heart so carefully not because he intended to eat, or otherwise, destroy it.
The melting of ice-rich permafrost can destroy the physical foundation of everything above: tundra and forests, houses and roads.
Rarely has a company managed to destroy so much shareholder value in so short a time.
Still, it is large enough to destroy sensitive micro-electronic components.
Bush is an alien organism and is trying to destroy the entire planet.
Some malware is designed to damage or destroy your computer, so once you get the infection, you quickly know it.
Ordinarily, ski patrollers destroy hoar with direct detonation.
On other planets and moons, they can destroy entire atmospheres.
But it is destined to repeat its violent past and destroy itself again.
In this mode, there are no zombies to destroy your creations, and you don't have to mine bricks.
But what would really make a difference would be the ability to destroy incoming artillery rounds.
Tornadoes, nukes--they're all out to destroy our family values.
We didn't destroy anything, these lands were not even used for years.
He was all for giving a demonstration of the manner in which good could destroy evil.
In such cases, cardiac ablation may be used to destroy the tissue that is producing the unpredictable electrical signals.
But don't worry, it won't destroy all your files or replicate itself and spread to all your friends' inboxes.
In fact, computation as it is currently carried out depends on many operations that destroy information.
Thus capitalism employs the critique that was designed to destroy it.
Chimney fires could beget larger blazes that would destroy blocks and blocks of wooden houses.
He doesn't destroy lives the way the prosecutor has.
He rightly feared it would pop and that it might destroy the firm he founded.
When they realized they could not beat us militarily they switched to saying they would destroy us from within.
We are the virus and if the planet must change to destroy us then so be it.
They preserve what has a value for them and will destroy everything that has in their eyes no value.
However, people can destroy it in a single planting season or with a single landscaping endeavor.
Back then, scientists didn't have ways to date archaeological remains that didn't destroy the remains in the process.
They are essentially killers who have found a legal way to destroy people.
Though only about one-sixteenth-inch in size, they can destroy a hive of tens of thousands of bees in as little as six months.
Coal does not destroy huge areas of the ocean when it is mined and burnt.
These impressions might fade if you focussed on any particular work, but fairs destroy focus.
Destroy any lilies that have mottled leaves or are seriously stunted.
Wildfire-an ancient lord of the wilderness-can create life as well as destroy it.
When commercial radio took off, musicians bellyached that it would destroy them.
Being human doesn't give us the right to destroy the planet to advance the interests of a few.
Wildfires not only destroy property and habitat, they are extremely costly.
It is impossible for inflation per se to destroy the real value of any non-monetary item.
He has shown no reluctance to destroy reputations, to cut people off at the knees.
By using them for fuel, it not only replaces some fossil fuel but also does not destroy plant life.
The exposure would prompt the body's immune system to raise its own disease-fighting antibodies to destroy the protein.
So on the one hand ultra-short pulses can be used to selectively destroy cancerous cells.
Exposing them to the polluted air of the modern world will inevitably destroy them.
Their answer is that computers won't destroy interpretation.
It is however your own country and you are free to destroy it.
In the early stages of development people destroy forests for a meagre living.
So, let's keep tagging those photos and help destroy everyone's privacy.
In her case, the search and destroy mission caused by her other recalcitrant itch had raised the ante.
Send it out to sea in search of a humanitarian aid ship to destroy.
But it shows what can happen if too many people embrace a luxury brand-and, thereby, destroy the myth of exclusivity.
Modeled on a powerful real-life laser, it can destroy an enemy in one shot.
Wildfires can destroy anything and everything in their path.
Surplus elephant populations damage crops and destroy the habitat of other wildlife.
If they don't destroy themselves, others will destroy them.
The store, then, would enable record labels to compete with pirates rather than pursue a futile attempt to destroy them.
As he does so, his pride may well destroy his own people.
We are determined to destroy all of the tools of the military clique which they are using to prolong this useless war.
In a single day the anchor of a cruise ship can destroy an area of coral reef half the size of a football pitch.
Also, rake up and destroy any remaining fallen fruit and leaves.
If you destroy your heritage and scenery, you will come to regret it.
All attempts to destroy it have failed, and it appears to be resistant to all known poisons.
As for safer, washing alone does not destroy all the potential organisms that can be destroyed by cooking.
Prosecutors are ashamed of being involved in an acquittal and fear that losing a case will destroy their careers.
Not only that, but the stores also destroy the clothes first, cutting huge holes in garments and shoes so they can't be reused.
If you ever need anything to destroy your faith in human nature, that will do it.
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