Palermo could not rule out sabotage or collision as "plausible" causes of destruction.

Brahman is the sole cause of creation, maintenance and destruction of the Universe.

In a few years, without the numerous causes of destruction, which arrests their fecundity, these plants would overrun the earth.

Flooding by the Indus is thought to have been the cause of destruction.

In Shakespearian tragedy, hypocrisy is not only a poison in itself but the cause of ever greater destruction.

The cause of heavy destruction during recent years has been archaeological excavations on those sites themselves.

Strangely enough, there seemed to be no indication that the pulse had been the cause of any death or destruction.

"You have broken the treaty, and been the direct cause of much death, misery and destruction," he said.

And now that the war between England and France has stopped, they see only too clearly that the knights are the cause of further destruction.

Yet it is remembered not as a cause of death, destruction and misery but as a prelude to greatness.