1.  Ian may be a romantic, but the cupids and violins have not quite destroyed his sense of the absurd.

2.  Brutal competition and the lust for money are destroying our sense of community.

3.  But we are not going to let them destroy our sense of community.

4.  Hyperinflation absolutely destroys any sense of trust and stability between people and their government.

5.  It destroys their sense of what it means to be a citizen, an active participant in life and society.

6.  They destroy our sense of community, our ability to communicate face to face and to observe and appreciate our surroundings.

7.  When you start to accept torture as something normal, it destroys your sense of humanity.

8.  The assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin threatens to harm the peace process by destroying the sense of security the former general turned peacemaker had offered his people.