2:55 p.m. Updated The devastating tornado that shredded Joplin, Mo., Sunday night is a reminder of the incredible destructive potential from storms in America's heartland. (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)
This wound is passed on by the laws of inheritance and ripens in bitterness and destructive potential as a tragic consequence of the very progress of humanity towards the adulthood of control over the face of the earth which God originally intended for our blessing. (faith.org.uk)
Faced in 2008 with a financial crisis unprecedented in modern times, whose destructive potential can hardly be exaggerated, the Labour government made some absolutely vital calls at a time which exposed the Conservatives as neoliberals, not novices. (theguardian.com)