That has worked in smaller places, like the village of Maarat al-Noaman, obliterated last week just after the opposition declared it "liberated".
"How do you hold an election when an entire city was obliterated a month ago?" Mr. Omar asked, referring to Falluja.
This is the same regulatory trick the corps relies on to allow coal mining companies in Appalachia to dump the waste from mountaintop mining into the valleys below — a practice that has obliterated 1,200 miles of streams.
(Brits secretly hoping for a hotter future, be warned: that collapsing sea ice may have caused the freakish jet stream behaviour that made 2012 the wettest English year on record and obliterated this year's spring, both mere amuse-bouche for the feast of climate impacts expected in coming decades, even from the carbon we've emitted so far).
As the three-man Bosnian Serb delegation tags along to the Ohio peace talks as an appendage to the Serbian leader, Slobodan Milosevic, they leave behind a people desperate for peace, a power struggle between two leaders indicted for war crimes and a city whose once-vital Muslim population was all but obliterated earlier this month.
Dueling narratives have emerged since the hospital in northern Sadaa province was obliterated late Monday night.
Any emotional capital Hannah earned at the end of last week's episode was pretty much obliterated this week.
Radiosurgery can obliterate 80-90% of small arteriovenous malformations, but no information exists on the survival of treated compared with untreated patients.
The fires that started on Oct. 25 in the San Bernardino National Forest northeast of here were less destructive than the Cedar Fire that swept through San Diego County, killing 16 people and obliterating 2,207 homes.
Sunday night's finale of the dark AMC drama drew 10.3 million viewers, obliterating last week's series record of 6.6 million, according to Nielsen.
Centuries of state-sanctioned prejudice have been obliterated in the last 40 years: some of the last set of laws denying full rights to a minority are now being overcome.
