Sentence examples for has almost obliterated from inspiring English sources

Like Titch Thomas in Larkin's "Sunny Prestatyn", he defaces the picture until he has almost obliterated the famous, but solitary, original.

Such privatization of public power has almost obliterated the U.S. Agency for International Development USAIDD).

And tax credits for women with children have almost obliterated the difference in levels of take-home pay between the highly skilled and the unskilled.

We wandered down to the house to get coffee, picking our way through the forest of self-seeders that have almost obliterated the stone path: frilly Californian poppies in a wonderful shade of apricot; feathery ammi with flat white heads; sky-blue love-in-a-mist; mounds of honeywort with flowers of purple and turquoise.

The separation of church and state has almost been obliterated; congressional votes exchanged for political favours.

The contribution made by the Chinese Labour Corps was barely recognised at the end of the war, and has almost been obliterated since.

It is hung next to South Crofty of September 1991, where the mine has almost been obliterated by colours, and where pure abstraction has almost – but not quite - taken over from representation.

The turbulence is threatening famine in a country whose economy, never showing much of a pulse, has been almost obliterated by an American-led block on loans that has been in force since 2000.

In it, tiny human figures pick their way through a scene of utter desolation in which the road has been almost obliterated.

Syria's national wealth, infrastructure and institutions have been "almost obliterated" by the "catastrophic impact" of nearly five years of conflict, a new report has found.

In Scotland the "red/green" minority parties that emerged after the 2003 election appeared to have been almost obliterated.