Examples of destroyer

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
The preservation narrative invokes images of a primeval landscape where the only role people have is as savers (funders) or destroyers (local communities).
Ungulates, which eat greater absolute and relative quantities of seed, are obviously mainly destroyers of such regeneration units.
As great hunters, they are equally efficient destroyers of wildlife as well.
Tides are destroyers and creators of coastlines- nibbling here, building there; it is odd to think that our coasts are shaped largely by the gravitational energy of the moon.
In contrast, the ancient meaning of persona that is implicitly invoked by these papers recalls the dramaturgy of masks as makers, not destroyers of true identities.
The instigator must bear the cost of this, the principle being that the destroyer pays (the 'instigator principle').
He asks listeners: is he a "leader" or a "destroyer"?
He acknowledges the ways in which science is a "destroyer," annihilating belief in myth, legend, and fantasy with its empirical outlook.
From one perspective, rather than being a destroyer of language skills, text messaging is a method of testing language proficiency.
The doctor, for example, did not bother to claim the destroyer or the healer status when queried.
The serpent temples also depict the primordial flood crocodilian, who was both the world and the world destroyer-hence, a symbol of both order and chaos.
When used morally it can rally a society to perform unbelievable acts of good, when used immorally it can serve as a destroyer of humanity itself.
The introduction of the principle that the destroyer pays, the 'instigator principle', will, it seems, soon make it possible to fund intensive forms of protection and archaeological excavation.
We will be destroyers instead of wise managers.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
I reject the idea that fishermen are all predators or destroyers of the environment.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
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