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With Roberto scoring twice, the Baggio boys annihilated the Germans 6-1, thighesteverever aggregate scoreline in the final.
It continued with a column Morgan wrote for the Hollywood Reporter on Wednesday, where he described Cooper as "stiff in a studio", and that his show gets "annihilated in the ratings" by Fox News's Bill O'Reilly.
Next time out, a stronger German team annihilated Turkey 7-2, halreadylready beaten them 4-1 in their initial match.
The Catalan bemoaned Bayern being only "spectators" at the Dortmund show before the break but they still had managed to create a handful of excellent goalscoring opportunities with some free-flowing attacking football that would have annihilated lesser sides – the excellent Roman Weidenfeller had other ideas though.
If Ange Postecoglou is true to his word – and there is no reason to doubt him – Australia will not be parking the bus when they come face-to-face with a Holland side that annihilated Spain.
In the national capital region (in effect a state) the AAP annihilated it.
THE blast annihilated the back of the Humvee, leaving a smear in the desert.
The South Vietnamese were annihilated , in part because their command structure remained riddled with Communist sympathisers who had given away the timing of the operation, and in part because South Vietnamese commanders who derived political power from the strength of their units declined to risk their troops to rescue rival commanders.
First, he was a seminal figure in England's National Trust, which earned him the bouquet of "the man who saved England" by protecting scores of fine houses (and sometimes their inhabitants) that might otherwise have been annihilated by debt and the wrecking ball.
The space race was intimately bound up with American and Soviet efforts to build rockets that could have annihilated mankind; and yet at the height of the cold war, in 1975, there was a spectacular meeting in space between American and Soviet craft.In recent years, the Americans and Russians have cooperated closely to staff and supply the ISS.
The region is almost entirely dependent on imports, as the authorities search for ways to rebuild an economic base that was all but destroyed during the Anfal campaign of Saddam Hussein in the late 1980s.Local industry and, especially, agriculture (once the dominant employer in Kurdistan) were all but annihilated by the time Kurdistan gained its autonomy in late 1991.
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In English grammar, "annihilated" acts as a past participle. According to Ludwig, it typically appears in passive voice constructions to denote total erasure. It can also function adjectivally to describe the state of an entity that has been destroyed. It is frequently seen following auxiliary verbs like "was" or "were".
Expression frequency: Very common
