Tipped by many (I hold up my hand) to head the Eastern Conference standings this term, instead the once pre-eminent force sits in 11th place, their hopes of reaching the play-offs obliterated by an internal combustion which claimed the job of coach Scott Skiles as well as the Windy City careers of several players, courtesy of a deadline-beating trade with Cleveland.
Puffins were once plentiful off the coast of Maine, but the population was decimated in the 1800's by people seeking their meat and eggs, and totally obliterated on Seal Island.
Any hopes that the Wolves might ease off were obliterated in the early minutes of the second half.
Finally, experiments with a chemotherapy drug called busulfan, known to selectively kill off sperm stem cells in men, likewise appeared to obliterate egg replacement in mice without killing existing eggs, leading to severe depletion of their egg stock over time.
Three centuries later, during the Reformation, Henry VIII – determined to kill off the cult of St Thomas – ordered his shrine to be destroyed and his remains obliterated.
After an obliterated off-season, Dalton is being thrown in after Carson Palmer retired when the owner Mike Brown would not trade him.
When the bomb went off, it obliterated the creosote bushes that had been growing here, along with every other living thing inside the circle.
Today, the balance of power between workers and capital has been obliterated with a tiny few elites making off like bandits as we have illustrated in Heist.
The sound of the ram's horn is said to obliterate and ward off demons, whom we nowadays call by their more spiritually correct names: negative energies, shame, regret, jealousy and disease.
It got obliterated by L.S.U.
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".
