Sentence examples for annihilated up from inspiring English sources

The slogan lies at the heart of the campaign for the Turkish state to recognise that its Ottoman predecessor annihilated up to 1.5 million Armenian citizens, starting on 24 April 1915 with the arrest of intellectuals in Constantinople and continuing with a centralised programme of deportations, murder, pillage and rape until 1922.

Experimentalists had been observing 'dijets' (two jets) for some time: the electron and positron would collide and annihilate, freeing up enough energy to let a quark - antiquark pair claw its way out of the vacuum.

In many areas, the Rim fire's pent-up force annihilated everything, leaving a barren, scorched landscape firefighters refer to simply as "the black".

First the retirees of 1913 lost half their money; then deflation meant to recapture that lost half ended up annihilating the banking system where the savers' cash was parked in the first place.

But his ability to swing a Duke cricket ball round corners annihilated England as Massie picked up match figures of 16-137, which remains the best performance by an Australia bowler and the third best of all-time.

Blankinship observes that "after the Day of the Defile, many Khurasani tribal surnames never again appear as part of the army in Khurasan, leading one to suppose they had been annihilated or their men had given up fighting.

Being picked off a few at a time may end up being worse than being annihilated all at once by a nuclear bomb.

We still want to know, why, as Hawthorne notes in a journal, had Melville "made up his mind to be annihilated"?

The phrase of Melville's, "made up my mind to be annihilated," appears in Hawthorne's journal about Melville's visit in England.

But even more so, "the cynicism of this generation had annihilated the innocent world the narrator had grown up in".

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