Sentence examples for was almost annihilated from inspiring English sources

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On October 8 , 1967 the group was almost annihilated by a special detachment of the Bolivian army aided by CIA advisers.

This crusade was almost annihilated in Asia Minor by the Seljuqs, but the survivors helped to reinforce the kingdom upon their arrival in Jerusalem.

The command group managed to break through to the 16th Tank Brigade, but that unit itself was almost annihilated at Förstgen (Forsiegen), losing over 90 percent of its personnel; out of 1,300 soldiers, only about 100 survived.

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The local leaderships in Leningrad, in Ukraine, and elsewhere were almost annihilated.

The native forests, which had suffered sporadic felling for centuries, were almost annihilated during the Japanese occupation in the early 1940s, when most of the remaining trees were chopped down for cooking fuel.

They were subsequently counter-attack by German office workers who, despite being almost annihilated by the 13th Cavalry Brigade's machine guns, held off the British cavalry attack.

By August 25, most of Ichiki's survivors reached Taivu Point and radioed Rabaul to tell 17th Army headquarters that Ichiki's detachment had been "almost annihilated at a point short of the airfield".

Junayd's army was attacked by the Turgesh in the pass, and although the Umayyad army managed to extricate itself from the pass and reach Samarkand, it suffered enormous casualties (some 25,000 30,000 men), while Sawra's 12,000 men, who had been commanded to attack the Turgesh in the rear in a relief effort, were almost annihilated.

Such scientists would also have a high hI,norm in contrast to the typical "collaborator" whose impact is almost annihilated in the hI,norm metric.

Cusk was nearly annihilated by this reception.

The expeditionary force was virtually annihilated, including its main commanders.

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