Sentence examples for try to annihilate from inspiring English sources

It is like the cockroach: no matter how much people seem to try to annihilate it, it survives and thrives.

Growing up, Amos, who had not yet broken with his father and changed his surname, wanted to be not a writer, who, he observed, "could be killed like ants", but a book, because however much you try to annihilate a book, there is always a chance that a copy would survive in some out-of-the-way library.

Especially, anticommunism was a chronic 'enemy-making' project toward the internal dissidents and extremities that try to annihilate the targeted domestic social and political group, person (Raskin 1976; Robin 2001).

Such hatred becomes its own worst enemy, however, for no matter how much we try to annihilate the hated one the hate remains within us.

Soon after President Obama's second inaugural address, John Boehner said the White House would try "to annihilate the Republican Party" and "shove us into the dustbin of history".

Following the Polish-Bohemian war, Matthias tried to annihilate the main base of Frederick's dynastic power.

Last month, in one of his last speeches, he urged "the Christian Hungarian masses" to defeat what he called the international forces trying to annihilate them.

That leaves it with the impossible task of trying to annihilate the Houthis and allowing Iran to pose as the peacemaker.

But even in defeat, the fallen emperor was reluctant to abandon these "intriguing and enterprising islanders" whom he had spent so much energy trying to annihilate.

In the spring of 1935 Bill Wilson, a self-proclaimed rum hound from New York, found himself on a business trip in Akron, Ohio, trying to annihilate his craving for a drink.

"Netanyahu doesn't simply go against these institutions and tries to annihilate them, he is motivated by a belief in his singular role in Jewish history.