1.   Clearly, people choose to act selfishly and in destructive ways despite the pain their actions will bring to others.

2.   Academic achievement, according to this mind-bogglingly destructive way of thinking, was a white thing, and thus in some sense contemptible.

3.   In interviews, several said the Manhattan Project should serve as a cautionary note about how science can be used in destructive ways.

4.   Kerosene-soaked tires have been set ablaze in caves, a particularly destructive way of smoking out bats.

5.   The court was clearly responding to a toughening public attitude toward child molesters, but it has done so in a destructive way.

6.   They have extracted various minerals in environmentally destructive ways.

7.   This will stop you from acting on your feelings in destructive ways.

8.   I would like to point out to all of you that in a few years yet another Indonesian tribe will be eliminated by a destructive way of doing business.