"It would be obliterated in its current form from many views in many neighborhoods," said Daniel Goldstein, a spokesman for the group Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn.
"My recurring nightmare was that the new buyer wouldn't get it and it would be obliterated," she said by phone from Pennsylvania, where she had just moved into a Bauhaus-style home designed by, you guessed it, Mr. D'Aquino.
The phenomenon was dubbed a "blood moon" and brought with it prophecies that the world would be obliterated.
My woman-loving side would be obliterated, and with it a piece of myself.
I mean, how do we have, in 2012, racism in the world?" Did he assume that racism would be obliterated?
In the election itself he would be obliterated by Lyndon Johnson, but in landslide defeat lay the seeds of conservatism's imminent triumph.
Lawyers for the Quechan tribe, whose reservation is nearby, said the mine site contained archaeological remains like rock carvings and ancient trails that would be obliterated by mining.
Metals, plastics, ceramics, concrete, even pure diamond — all would be obliterated on contact, and so the machine will hold the superheated cloud in a "magnetic bottle," using the largest system of superconducting magnets in the world.
A warning letter signed by novelists, academics, children's writers and actors was published; cultural commentators predicted that Dickens, Austen and other canonical GCSE texts would be obliterated from the popular imagination.
"Every small businessman that I know, they're all glad the president bailed out General Motors because without that, the whole area would be obliterated," said Ms. Shepard, 54, as she left her afternoon shift the other day.
Mitt Romney jumped all over him, then raced off to tell a conservative talk show host that if the Republicans nominated someone with Perry's view on Social Security "we would be obliterated as a party".
