But that does not include costs like the tons of flowers that growers in Kenya and Israel had to destroy.

VOA: special.2010.04.23

Confederate President Jefferson Davis ordered his commander in Charleston, General Beauregard, to destroy the fort before the food could arrive.

VOA: special.2009.08.13

She soon found evidence that Standard Oil had been using unfair and illegal methods to destroy other oil companies.

VOA: special.2010.04.25

NASA was worried that the extra water could destroy the power supply needed for the spacecraft's return to Earth.

VOA: special.2009.06.24

It is sabotage. It means to damage or destroy as an act of subversion against an organization or nation.

VOA: special.2010.04.18

Those with the highest winds that destroy well-built homes and throw vehicles more than one hundred meters are called an F-five.

VOA: special.2010.05.11

So for the ten patients in the study, doctors used a low amount of radiation to destroy only some of their marrow.

VOA: special.2009.12.16

By eighteen seventy-one, radical Republican congressmen were demanding a new law to destroy the Ku Klux Klan.

VOA: special.2010.02.18

Ida Tarbell charged that Standard Oil was using illegal methods to hurt or destroy smaller oil companies.

VOA: special.2010.04.25

Perhaps the medicine would destroy the poison in their bodies and help them to become normal again.

VOA: special.2009.05.30

One of the showerheads was cleaned with a bleach solution in an effort to destroy the bacteria.

VOA: special.2009.10.13

It could change the plane's path just enough to destroy the pilot's chance of a safe landing.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

But people of all opinions feared that the president was trying to destroy the careful system of checks and balances in the federal government.

VOA: special.2011.04.21

Many Whigs in the House of Representatives opposed the plan, because they feared that the political dispute over slavery would destroy the Supreme Court.

VOA: special.2009.03.05