In a heartbeat, generations of savings and entire charities have been extinguished.
The group would have been extinguished soon even without the complication of American help.
Had he stayed on the field, his reputation as one of rugby's brighter sparks might have been extinguished.
Qutb was hanged on August 29 , 1966 and the Islamist threat in Egypt seemed to have been extinguished.
Four-and-a-half years after the conflict erupted, hopes of returning have been extinguished for most Syrian refugees.
The Health and Safety Executive and the Environment Agency will conduct a joint investigation into the cause of the explosion once the fires have been extinguished.
In most of the places the Walhi crew visited, the fires appeared to have been extinguished, but the earth remained hot, smoldering underground.
When he announced his retirement from race-riding in 2007, what little chance Leighton Aspell stood of winning the Grand National seemed to have been extinguished for good.
Once Majeed's counsel had finished presenting his case for clemency to the court, however, the last embers of his friendship with Butt seemed finally to have been extinguished.
Any lingering hopes that it could secure the funds it needs to keep trading appear to have been extinguished by poor trading since Christmas.
But in the opening section of this new work, enfant, he creates a world in which all human movement appears to have been extinguished.
