Sentence examples for annihilate time from inspiring English sources

In an 1878 essay, Edison (or his ghostwriter) proclaimed portentously that his invention would "annihilate time and space, and bottle up for posterity the mere utterance of man".

One newspaperman dubbed Nurmi "a mechanical Frankenstein created to annihilate time".

Today the agency of the Internet has annihilated time and space completely, and has set us up for adoption of world-wide time.

A god who creates and then annihilates time, if he is held to be omnipotent, is often credited with having done this with a benevolent purpose that is being carried out according to plan.

He wonders if the implant is broken, and what happened, and, confusedly, if this is anesthesia annihilating time.

Livestock populations would be annihilated over time if the trends in end balances and negative growth rates were to continue and not be interrupted by the upward phases of the livestock cycles.

The findings on the end balances and the negative growth rates indicate that the livestock populations would be annihilated with time if the trends were to continue and not be interrupted by year-on-year differences in population dynamics, especially the upward 'boom' phases of the livestock cycles discussed by Scoones (1996) and Bailey et al. (1999).

As Marxists put it, capitalism developed the urge to "annihilate space with time".

It merely elides them, all while propagating the kind of magical thinking that often gathers around high-tech billionaires like the notion that they really can annihilate space and time.

If people believed in 1938 that distance had been annihilated, there is time in 2013 to put a little between you and the onrushing world.

The cold war may be over but the world knows it has the capacity to annihilate itself many times over.Second, in 1914, although peace movements were active, many thought a big war, after several near-misses over crises in the Balkans and Morocco, was inevitable.