1.   It was an act of war, the wholesale destruction of a city.

2.   While the threat of wholesale destruction failed to materialize, the cathedrals were turned over to a variety of secular uses.

3.   Already, the bid has been a fig-leaf for the wholesale destruction of old Beijing for the profit of corrupt city officials and of Hong Kong developers.

4.   Although neither the Apollo nor the Lyric was protected from demolition by a landmark designation, development officials had made clear that they would not allow wholesale destruction.

5.   And some of those changes have enabled us to accept the wholesale destruction of American children as more or less routine.

6.   A. It led to the wholesale destruction of many deep-water environments and to a kind of fishing that more like strip-mining than harvesting.

7.   But the dominant tone masquerading as humor is a snide, rancid nihilism devoid of laughs, unless wholesale destruction and gloating stupidity are what tickle your funny bone.

8.   He starts with eighth- and ninth-century Byzantium, when debates about biblical strictures against graven images led to a wholesale destruction of figurative artworks.

9.   Of course, the wholesale destruction is compelling.

10.   The real culprits for this wholesale destruction are the permissive owners who allow their animals to run free.