Sentence examples for extermination by from inspiring English sources

The victorious sides believe only independence saved them from extermination by their neighbours.

The Roma were the only ethnic group besides Jews to be targeted for extermination by the Nazis.

Maugham signed up to serve in Switzerland then revolutionary Russia, where he narrowly escaped extermination by the Bolsheviks.

Centuries of discrimination, including systematic extermination by some 20th-century fascist regimes, have helped keep many of them marginalised.

The population in question in the spring of 2011 were the civilians in rebel-held Benghazi, threatened with extermination by Gaddafi.

We applaud their escapes because they have managed, under extremely dangerous circumstances, to survive their extermination by the hands of the very ones who are supposedly appointed to protect them.

We knew what happened to the Yazidis and didn't want to meet the same fate," said Father Gabriel, referring to the religious minority's near-extermination by the Islamic State just a few months earlier.

But the campaign, financed from a $14 million allocation in the Health Department's annual budget for rodent control that has remained almost unchanged in three years, has not been accompanied by any increase in extermination or by more rat control efforts.

Unless they are exterminated, when old rat-infested buildings are torn down, the rats simply move into the next inhabited area.…Most cities have legal requirements that rats be exterminated in any building demolished; in New York, the going rate in 1960 for a lying certificate of extermination, paid by corrupt owners to corrupt exterminators, is $5.

The Tasmanians, the narrator notes, "were entirely swept out of existence in a war of extermination waged by European immigrants".

This ancient line of rock artists was rewarded with extermination: killed by the settlers in a series of massacres.