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".
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).
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.
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 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.
It would have been both a disastrous and fortuitous time for early "biological" molecules, which could be annihilated and reformed many times over, according to researchers.
Although his review was positive, he did criticise two parts of the episode: the concept of "time-lock[ing]" the Time War was questioned because the Time Lords were annihilated in the conflict; and he complained that the Doctor's phone number was out of service.
