destroy a livelihood

Examples (10)

• A sudden policy change can destroy a family's livelihood.
• The economic downturn threatened to destroy many people's livelihoods.
• Building a new dam will destroy the local fishermen's livelihood.
• Unfair competition could destroy the small business owner's livelihood.
• He feared the lawsuit would completely destroy his livelihood.
• The drought truly destroyed the farmers' livelihoods last year.
• Such reckless behavior can easily destroy one's professional livelihood.
• They protested the factory closing, saying it would destroy their livelihoods.
• A severe storm had the potential to destroy the coastal community's livelihoods.
• Critics argued that the new regulations would destroy many agricultural livelihoods.