Next, the morel showed, Earth's temperatures began to climb as the sun went into its destructive phase.

This constitutes one of the most destructive phases of tobacco mosaic virus infection.

This is a peculiarly destructive phase of drinking, physically, and socially.

Even now, no one can say whether we are past the purely destructive phase of this calamity.

South Padre Island has been in a destructive phase for a long time, probably having retreated landward (along with the lagoon and mainland shoreline).

She had entered a destructive phase from which she would never recover.

War has a destructive phase, when values are destroyed, and a declining phase, when some of values are restored.

In 1990, the eruption entered its most destructive phase when flows turned eastward and totally destroyed the villages of Kalapana and Kaimū.

We have entered the most destructive phase of colonial occupation in our entire history.

And when the destructive phase is completed off we go on the merry-go-round again.