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Black rhinos were nearly driven to extinction in the 1990s.

During autumn of 1915, the "Fokker Scourge" began to have an effect on the battlefront as Allied spotter planes were nearly driven from the skies.

Hatred and persecution of wolves was the primary reason they were nearly driven off the map in the lower 48 states -- down to fewer than 1,000 wolves limited to northeastern Minnesota.

On the North American side, eider down was initially preferred, but once the eiders were nearly driven to extinction in the 1770s, down collectors switched to the auk at the same time that hunting for food, fishing bait, and oil decreased.

Many lawsuits later, the sweepstakes industry was nearly driven out of business.

WASHINGTON — The Northeastern Republican was nearly driven to extinction by political climate change, but the species appears poised to make a comeback.

When Daisy is nearly driven to distraction by their manipulative antics, Crawford blows up, but Preminger held her within the tight confines of the plot, and the rage works, too.

Len, despairing over his continuing ache for her, is nearly driven to a liaison with her unsubtly flirtatious mother (whose real desire is to visit punishment on her slug of a husband) and repeatedly claims he is leaving.

Like so many films of the Great Depression, it is deeply engaged with the social reality of the day, drawing the portrait of a young working-class couple (James Dunn and Sally Eilers) who are nearly driven apart by economic pressures.

After a little skirmishing, the tiny Polish defense force was nearly driven out".

The polecat was nearly driven to extinction in Britain, but hung on in Wales and is now rapidly spreading.