It has also been derided by the environmental group Greenpeace as an environmentally and economically destructive strategy whose consequences may prove devastating in the next century.

Most of the conflict consisted of economically destructive raids against the other side's settlements.

I am also not sympathetic to the fund managers' cries against program trading because I believe their participation in leveraged-buyouts is economically destructive.

The May 18, 1980, event was the most deadly and economically destructive volcanic eruption in the history of the United States.

In addition, H.R. 3630 blocks several economically destructive regulations from the Environmental Protection Agency," Rokita said.

The autocracies of the Arab world have been as economically destructive as they've been politically repressive.

The result, he argued, would be a return to an economically destructive arms race.

Public opinion turned against the strike, which was viewed as ill timed and economically destructive.

The Republican tax cut plan is not just unfair, it's economically destructive.

Mr. Butler states that "generous assistance to the able-bodied" promotes "socially and economically destructive behavior."