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This was understood by Raphael Lemkin, the Polish lawyer who coined the word and worked tirelessly to have the annihilation of the Armenians recognised as an international crime.
If Sinn Féin came out as No 1 it would give them the right to nominate Martin McGuinness as first minister; no unionist would serve under him for fear of electoral annihilation in the near future.
"We no longer live in fear of global annihilation ," the US president said, referring to the era when Berliners "carved out an island of democracy against the greatest of odds" surrounded by the Berlin Wall and in the shadow of the permanent threat posed by the cold war.
Thus the right are heard to argue that fascism copied communism: before becoming a fascist, Mussolini was a socialist; Hitler, too, was a National Socialist; concentration camps and genocidal violence were features of the Soviet Union a decade before Nazis resorted to them; the annihilation of the Jews has a clear precedent in the annihilation of the class enemy, etc.
"If Labour is enacting a 35 per cent strategy, hoping to sneak into power with just 35 per cent of the vote, the Liberal Democrats are going for a 10 per cent strategy to avoid annihilation at the next election.
Last century we desperately fought and died against systems in which the state listened to every telephone conversation The regime that we built to defend ourselves against nuclear annihilation was restructured at the end of the 20th century.
Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?" The term genocide was coined in the early 1940s by a Polish Jewish lawyer, Raphael Lemkin, as a way to capture in law the extent of Nazi atrocity.
Labor has deposed Australia's first female prime minister and resurrected her predecessor Kevin Rudd in a desperate bid to avoid annihilation at the upcoming election.
"Prepare Yourself, Pathetic Fool!" screams the Mortal Kombat: Annihilation homepage.
So Walsh will perhaps, therefore, sidestep the fate that greeted Tulisa when she left The X Factor, saw Syco's protective forcefield disappear, and was the subject of an elaborately executed career annihilation by the News of the World.
This was more evident when, a mere 20 years later, the United States was locked in a confrontation of nuclear annihilation with the Soviet Union.
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Annihilation primarily functions as a noun, referring to the act of completely destroying something or the state of being completely destroyed. Ludwig examples show it used in contexts ranging from political downfalls to physical destruction. Ludwig AI states that the phrase is correct and usable in written English.
Expression frequency: Very common
