Sentence examples for war of annihilation from inspiring English sources

War on the Eastern fronts was truly a war of annihilation, one with racial overtones.

One was the planning for a new kind of total war -- a war of annihilation -- with the Soviet Union.

Invading Britain On 30 July 1940 he ordered preliminary planning for a war of annihilation against the Soviet Union.

Under Saddam, the Kurds "were facing a dictatorship in Baghdad that was launching a war of annihilation against the Kurdish people," he said.

(As many as two hundred thousand Kurds were killed in the eighties and nineties, a period they call the War of Annihilation).

The Kurds still call the nineteen-eighties, when Saddam's forces killed a hundred and eighty thousand Kurdish civilians, the War of Annihilation.

We face new implacable dictatorships, new forms of totalitarianism, even wars of annihilation".

"Dreams clash and are shattered": two wars of annihilation destroyed the aspirations of poets and painters to be the authors of an earthly paradise.

And the clear answer is that every time Israel has been misguided enough to trade land for peace it has mostly led to the land being used as a launching pad for wars of annihilation against Israel.

They rebuffed repeated Israeli offers of peace, and instead launched a war of national annihilation.

Unfortunately, the lone female candidate, fast-rising Carly Fiorina, was the most militaristic contender, even returning to the Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD) insanity of the Cold War in calling for ramping up the nuclear triad in apparent preparation for a war of human annihilation with Russia.