Back in Czechoslovakia, the August 1968 Soviet-led invasion annihilated any hopes for an end to totalitarianism.
When Johnston finally informed Davis that he could not realistically hope to annihilate Sherman's mighty army, the Confederate president replaced him with John B. Hood, who had already lost two limbs in the war.
It's a moment of delicious, affirming, desperate hope that annihilates the meaninglessness of tragedy.
Having lost the referendum, the SNP has won its aftermath.Ms Sturgeon says she wants to use this influence to "pave the way" for Ed Miliband, the leader of the same Labour Party she hopes to annihilate in Scotland, to be prime minister.
After collaborating with Hitler to conquer their country, the Soviet regime executed some 22,000 Polish officers and intelligentsia in 1940 in the so-called Katyn massacres, hoping to annihilate the country's leadership class and forestall resistance to communist rule.
Britain and France demanded that Russia evacuate the Danubian Principalities, setting their ultimatum to expire in late March 1854 - the timing determined by the break up of the Baltic ice fields off Reval where the British hoped to annihilate part of the Russian Baltic fleet.
As night came, three Chinese regiments of the 79th Division attacked the ridges on the north and northwest of Yudam-ni, hoping to annihilate the garrison in one stroke.
He was hoping to catch and annihilate the 504th Main Force Battalion, which Drummond had tracked to a far section of the Plain of Reeds, a vast guerrilla-base area along the Cambodian border.
"We hope for a unified Iraq to annihilate ISIS, and certainly a unified Iraq to push back on Iran," the White House spokeswoman, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, said Monday.
