31.   The destructive power of lightning is awesome and people have long looked for protection against it.

32.   The destructive power of terrorism is on the rise, and the most advanced societies are the most vulnerable.

33.   The prospect of more exceptionally strong storms is particularly troubling because their destructive power rises enormously for even a small increase in wind speed.

34.   The rationale seems to be that no one could have reasonably anticipated the destructive power of the truck bomb or its placement just beyond the fence.

35.   The scale, which is determined by wind speed and destructive power, ranges from one to five.

36.   The stakes are raised when Hee and her cartoonlike comrades intercept a shipment of CTX, a top-secret liquid possessing destructive powers similar to nuclear weapons.

37.   They might examine the destructive power of military technologies based on scientific knowledge.

38.   Truman felt he had no choice but to show the Japanese and the world the awesome destructive power at his disposal.

39.   A destructive power struggle comes to a head Friday when embattled FIFA president Sepp Blatter faces his foes at an executive committee meeting in Zurich.

40.   A half-century into the nuclear age, the world finds it ever more difficult to keep the destructive power of the atom out of ever more hands.