Sentence examples for obliterating from inspiring English sources

That usual head-to-head battle, boring with their brilliance, fighting among themselves and obliterating all others became a three-way thing.

On January 11th bulldozers in the southern Italian town of Rosarno began obliterating the wretched dwellings from which more than 1,000 African crop-pickers had fled or been evacuated by police over the weekend.

China's growing prosperity does not course through its society, it sweeps over it, obliterating evidence of an earlier, poorer era.China keeps detailed statistics on the stuff it adds to the skyline.

The thinner outer layers of the star cannot contain the nuclear reactions so tightly, and the star balloons, obliterating nearby planets.Roberto Silvotti of the National Institute for Astrophysics in Naples and his colleagues spotted the planet, a gaseous giant like Jupiter, circling a star called V 391 Pegasi.

Now ads leap out from all over the place, obliterating the web page or lurking below a browser window ready to pounce when it is closed.

In 1994 a volcano erupted on the island of New Britain, obliterating the town of Rabaul.

Although it remains unclear exactly what happened in Lhasa, it is certain that Chinese police shot protesters in neighbouring Sichuan; that thousands of Tibetans have been detained; and that others are forced to undergo hated "patriotic re-education", which many see as aimed at obliterating their own culture.

Some officials admire the mobile-telecoms industry, where private firms with muscle and vim led a revolution in cheap telephony that touched every village (though obliterating their margins in the process).Telecoms is an inspiration, then, but it should also be a warning.

The horse proved his mettle in the Belmont Stakes, obliterating the opposition and winning by five lengths, all the while setting a new American record of 2 172/5.

Since the ink used in rotogravure printing is quite fluid, it penetrates through the pores of the paper surface, obliterating the screen pattern.

Even if the loss in economic output were reckoned at 50% (ie, the loss associated with a life-obliterating 19°C rise in temperatures), the models still say future generations would be better off (see chart, column 4).