The State Supreme Court's justices, he said, would have been acutely aware that once the recounts were completed it would be difficult for any legal strategy to erase public knowledge of them.
The war in Syria has become not simply a conflict between a brutal regime and those who want to see it fall, but a war on information itself: a calculated desire to destroy the fractured opposition's centres and erase all knowledge of what happened.
"So the notion that we're going to be able to erase your knowledge of what happened – that's science fiction at this point".
Erase prior knowledge of a specific topic out of your mind and look at your material with a fresh eye, section by section.
The Chinese government rode out the ensuing storm of international condemnation, and has since managed to erase almost all knowledge of the event among its own people - if not among the people of Hong Kong, where there's an annual commemoration.
This has long been the challenge for geologists, that in our relentless striving for the future, we tend to forget, if not erase outright, our knowledge of the past.
This episode didn't just have the Doctor once again confronting his reputation as an intergalactic predator, it had him essentially rebooting himself with the entire Dalek race, which is a pretty neat trick (but doesn't erase his own knowledge of what he's done).
But his attendance and the calls for "civil discourse" will not, should not erase less-publicized knowledge of the fact that Pearce has ties to the Neo-Nazi extremist groups whose members he has praised and whose rallies he has attended.
The best way to erase him out of your mind, is to actually erase him!
And the fact that his paid legal counsel could not produce a report that erased doubts about the governor's knowledge of the dirty tricks campaign poses a political problem.
Jeff Vanderbeek, the controlling owner of the Devils, could complete a deal by the end of next month to erase most of the team's debt and bring in new minority owners, according to two people with knowledge of the negotiations.
