Sentence examples for were obliterated as from inspiring English sources

Trees were downed and trailer parks were obliterated as far as Ormond Beach.

It was a game in which victory would have helped Rafa Benitez win over a few doubters after starting his tenure as Roberto Di Matteo's successor with two goalless draws, but a dominant first-half display and 1-0 lead were obliterated as the home side came back with three second-half goals.

The well-documented geological record of North-East Greenland shows that the Caledonian mountains were obliterated as topographic features during the late Palaeozoic and provides clear evidence of a history involving episodic, post-Caledonian exhumation and re-burial.

Criminal bolt holes are steadily being obliterated, as more extradition treaties are arranged.

On 17 acres bought by the railroad, 120 houses, three churches, two hospitals and an orphan asylum would have to be obliterated, as would the stables, warehouses and other ancillary structures.

The resulting cavity is obliterated as eggs of the next generation enlarge.

On 9 March, integrity and trust built up over a century was obliterated as Wisconsin state senators quickly reversed course and cleaved its budget "repair bill" in half.

Mitt Romney jumped all over him, then raced off to tell a conservative talk show host that if the Republicans nominated someone with Perry's view on Social Security "we would be obliterated as a party".

The cut looked a near certainty until it emerged this week that there have been 55,000 submissions to Decc's consultation – mostly from those in the industry who are furious it is about to be obliterated as a result of this change.

Whatever remained of a once proud and united nation following a brutal and inhumane 13-year sanctions regime, has been obliterated as a result of a military action of gigantic proportions to serve the interests of a handful of politicians and political agendas in the west, Israel and Iraq.

"If we nominate someone who the Democrats could correctly characterize as being against Social Security, we would be obliterated as a party," Romney said on Sean Hannity's radio program.