Frelimo decided to obliterate it right from the start".
He obliterated it, reducing required trips from seven to two, and inspiring a week of creativity that boiled necessary travel down to a single trip.
To support her contention that for Anne Elliot in Persuasion, "time not only changes, it destroys, it obliterates", she quotes from the novel about the long years since Anne last saw Captain Wentworth.
Bridegroom's family barred Crone from not only attending the funeral, but threatened him and attempted to obliterate him from Bridegroom's life.
The eerie thing about the material, developed by Surrey NanoSystems, is that it obliterates all texture from a surface, as far as the eye can tell, an effect you can see working on crinkled tin foil that looks like an endless void in the video below.
"They had engaged in a kind of game for two years of trying to make a separate peace with Iran and told us, 'We will only give you this information if you promise not to do anything with it or promise to obliterate Iran from the face of the earth,' " Berger told me.
Yet far from obliterating its life, they provided the key to the island's future prosperity.
In 1971, a federal judge found that this old manufacturing town, five miles from downtown Detroit, had deliberately used urban renewal projects throughout the 1950s and '60s to obliterate black areas from its two square miles, displacing hundreds of families.
While the proposals and technologies vary, the aim is to obliterate targets from afar, and with little risk to American military personnel.
