The City had planned to tear it down (part of the original contest rules for designing a tower was that it could be easily demolished) but as the tower proved valuable for communication purposes, it was allowed to remain after the expiration of the permit.

That notion can be easily demolished by a glance at the amazing fecundity of Russian art and literature in the period stretching for about a dozen years on either side of the 1917 revolution.

Perhaps he had abandoned it; perhaps he thought his own dialectic would have been less easily demolished.

Thus, 'old fashioned' walls - that is high and, relatively, thin - were excellent targets and, over time, easily demolished.

A religion that has lasted for nearly two millenniums is not easily demolished, especially not by artists absorbed with their own concerns.

What would have happened, he asks, had Richard Nixon still been President when the North Vietnamese attacked, and easily demolished, the South Vietnamese forces in 1975?

The long and narrow bridges were easily demolished in case of siege, which besides the drawbridges, also necessary for the passing of ships, was an important defensive strategy.

I will not tell you how we felt as the days rolled by; Bolivar and I found the time bearable only by repeating that if outright destruction were planned the firepower we had seen could have easily demolished the admirals' satellite and our ship.