lay waste

As he ransacks the federal government, trying to push out federal employees and lay waste to the ability of regulatory agencies to do their work, the last thing most people will assume motivates him is Christian fervor.

Trump throwing a wrench into the ability of the NIH to fund infectious disease research looks very much like the first step in Kennedy's scheme to lay waste to medical infrastructure to protect people from such illnesses.

Those programs are incredibly popular, creating a political firewall that may tank the plans to lay waste to the health care of millions.

My life without it is a swirl of forces, leading to natural disasters of impulsivity that often lay waste most acutely in my bank account.

Washington wrote in a letter to one of his generals that the goal was "to lay waste all the settlements."