Over a quarter of the city was obliterated, with a dreadful irony removing it from the top of the list of A-bomb targets. |
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The stamps affixed are obliterated at the despatching office in a manner to be fixed by our Minister of Finance. |
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The city was obliterated, over 250,0000 people were killed and generations poisoned by radiation. |
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Everything that entered the area was obliterated and it is possible that the ground is still mined. |
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On the bright side, the smoke has completely obliterated the sun, and we are no longer baking as if we were inside a giant oven. |
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The mass extended into the left hemisphere through the anterior corpus callosum and obliterated the frontal horn of the right lateral ventricle. |
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He appeared to be looking down on an aggressive fire coming up around the edges of the earth, a runaway fire that obliterated his surroundings. |
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Along with subsequent calcite deposition, the pentameres are obliterated, the outline becomes rounded, and nodose sides appear. |
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Their house obliterated by fire, the Inglehart family of Glenwood Springs now struggles with the stresses of loss and starting over. |
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The lumen of the vestibule could also be obliterated by overlapping undulations that originate from distinct regions in the vestibule. |
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Veal medallions were obliterated by a cascade of caramelized but briny leeks. |
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As one ages, the distinction between the two is obliterated by extra skin, fat, and droopiness in the jowl area. |
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The ductus arteriosus usually closes within 24 hours of birth and is obliterated anatomically in 1-8 weeks. |
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A bright, vermilion ground has been almost obliterated by some 17 rectangles meeting on broken lines. |
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Napalm was used widely against civilians, and most major cities were obliterated. |
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The near dead silence was obliterated as alarms wailed across the loudspeakers. |
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It was cold and dry, and their footprints were quickly obliterated by the powdery snow driven along by the gusting wind. |
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It is the ultimate human city, which likes to pretend it has obliterated nature under a blanket of asphalt. |
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In patients with Terry's nails, most of the nail plate turns white with the appearance of ground glass, and the lunula is obliterated. |
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The record has been much deformed, reconstituted, and obliterated during the subsequent Proterozoic and Phanerozoic eons. |
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Thirty seconds later and the noise is obliterated by keyboards and electronic drums. |
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Fortunately my powers of reason have not been entirely overcome and obliterated by received wisdom. |
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The most effective counter-measure was degaussing which obliterated the magnetic field of a steel hull. |
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After being obliterated at tennis on Saturday, I was thrashed at squash this afternoon. |
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A grey drizzle filled the valley, obliterated the mountains and separated the receding regiment of trees into saw-edged platoons. |
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In his painting of Kaaterskill Falls, for example, Cole obliterated with his brush the ugly intrusions of the already encroaching tourism. |
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If he had been lured or coerced from his house, all traces of the coercer were now apparently obliterated. |
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These paths will later be obliterated when the site is replanted and returned to a state of virtual nature. |
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The wind was still, the sky was black with the night and with the thick layer of storm clouds that obliterated the moon. |
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Endoscopic ligation can be repeated every 4-6 weeks until the esophageal varices have all been obliterated. |
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The outline of my pictures and other hanging pieces is faintly discernible on paint soon to be obliterated by a new shade. |
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Cambarus spp. in the Northeast have no lateral spines on their rostra and the Procambarus spp. in the area have a narrow or obliterated areola. |
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Their capes were vaporized instantly, and the resulting explosions obliterated the backs of their armor. |
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In these 23 patients, the main pancreatic duct was considered to be strictured or obliterated to various degrees due to the ampullary carcinoma. |
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If the domestication is complete, the humanity of the native is obliterated, at least, until he assimilates the dominant culture. |
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Every single one had to be vanquished, killed, destroyed, obliterated, and dead. |
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With their destroyer obliterated the pirates fled in all directions and then regrouped back together to resume their attack. |
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And so I spent the night, atremble, convinced that I had obliterated the school. |
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The caste system was obliterated legally, with one stroke of the pen, the day free India was born. |
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The spine of the Appalachian Mountains is being obliterated to gouge out the seams of black coal. |
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Late in the afternoon of April 26, 1937 waves of bombers obliterated the ancient capital of Basque Spain, Guernica. |
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Any worries stemming from everyday living are quickly obliterated under the immensity of the night skies, ablaze with stars as far as the eye can see. |
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Radiological study revealed that the right maxillary sinus was totally obliterated by a multilocular mass containing numerous radiopacities within the radiolucent areas. |
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After each volcanic eruption, the volcanic texture of the ash would have been obliterated when the swamp plants recolonized the ash, turning it into soil. |
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What is clear is that as a result the batter's box was obliterated. |
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Empire had dribbled away after 1945, for the Second World War exhausted victors as surely as it obliterated the vanquished. |
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Even in the 1930s at the genesis of his long relationship with Vogue, the sheer drama of his work obliterated the competition. |
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With the trappings of representation obliterated, the paintings offer a lean and stripped down physicality defined by specific proportion, luminosity and surface quality. |
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I get sick when I hear of the charities obliterated and the old and infirm investors who are left with nothing. |
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He followed Sasha through the wire diving for cover in a shell hole, just as a round from a trench mortar obliterated the three men who cleared the wire seconds before them. |
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In Egypt, it has not obliterated the mores of a place that has known better times. |
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A tornado obliterated a 461-point silver maple in Polk County, Iowa. |
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By Dan P. Lee, New York Magazine She was 22 when her memory was obliterated. |
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Extras like foreign languages and Greek classics have been all but obliterated from the national curriculum. |
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Every now and then the path was crossed and obliterated by a snow slip. |
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There are particular numbers that indicate which championship teams obliterated all contenders and which ones barely snatched the brass ring from their rivals. |
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Arriving at the outskirts of Brussels the merry band of travellers were aghast to discover that the entire city had been obliterated by a weapon of mass destruction. |
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The drifting snow obliterated lesser landmarks and covered the boundaries of roads and ditches with a covering several feet thick, making normal travel nigh on impossible. |
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In this series, vases float atop color fields, but here the vase is partly obliterated, as it is enveloped in smokelike, quivering strokes of black. |
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Light clouds or smoke over the target had obliterated Fisher's view for the second time and, true to his orders, he would not jeopardize the civilian population. |
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Across the Berkshire Downs heavy clouds obliterated the moon and unleashed a swirling hailstorm that lashed the dark bills and motorway with an icy deception. |
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Rarely, the internasal suture is obliterated by the fusion of nasal bones. |
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Flooding by hydroelectric reservoirs is especially detrimental to permanently frozen peatlands because the overall permafrost regime is completely altered or obliterated. |
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Hence the importance in these works of traces of successive compositional stages, pentimenti deliberately retained rather than obliterated in a final synthesis. |
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Ecstasy reduced, not to say obliterated, social inhibitions. |
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That sum is how much it would cost to create an identical copy of the parliament from scratch should the controversial original be obliterated in a disaster. |
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The seminiferous tubules may be preserved, atrophic, or completely obliterated. |
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The air cells can be obliterated with bone wax to prevent postoperative CSF leakage through this route. |
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The gallbladder remnant should be dissected off the liver and the obliterated common biliary tract divided distally. |
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Any Pictish names that existed before the arrival of Scandinavian settlers on Eday appear to have been completely obliterated. |
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Although the edema had diminished somewhat by the time this examination had been performed, the pyriform fossae were still obliterated. |
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The crime scene had almost been obliterated by the downdraught of the helicopter airlifting Shona to hospital. |
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When the verumontanum is reached, the obliterated urethral level generally becomes visible. |
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Or did they merely reveal a hip that was already there, but that Singer, et alia litigiously denied had been accidentally obliterated? |
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Meckel's diverticulum is a remnant of the omphalomesenteric duct which is normally obliterated by the 5th to 8th week of gestation. |
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Though emails and texting have all but obliterated cursive writing, a fashion backlash is evident in the revival of monogramming. |
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When one metanarrative becomes the norm of a culture, several of these smaller metanarratives are lost or obliterated. |
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North of Ardnamurchan, the place names that existed prior to the 9th century have been all but obliterated. |
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The Crace ceiling decorations in the entrance hall were not to the taste of the director Charles Holmes, and were obliterated by white paint. |
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The harsh and bitter feelings of this or that experience are slowly obliterated. |
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The king also destroyed Becket's bones and ordered that all mention of his name be obliterated. |
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The clan system of the Manchus in Aigun was obliterated by the despoliation of the area at the hands of the Russian invaders. |
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These properties, however, have largely been obliterated by landslides and coastal erosion over the 20th century. |
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If primary biogenic sources such as spicules and radiolarians existed, the biological elements have been obliterated by dolomitization and other processes. |
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I have abandoned, nay, rejected it, but it has not been obliterated. |
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In the Pleistocene period, most of the earlier soil in the northern part was obliterated by advancing and retrenching glaciers, leaving a complex stratigraphy. |
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Another significant bark fraction was comprised of cellular debris from the obliterated phloem tissues in bark that are partitioned by the periderms. |
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At first light they followed the dim tracks of her father's grullo, nearly obliterated by the rain but, when she put herself in the right mind, clear enough to follow. |
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The exact location of this original quarry has been obliterated by subsequent mining activity, but it is likely that it was on or near the site of the Diphwys Casson Quarry. |
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The pseudostome and pseudoproct become obscure and are shortly obliterated, the sarcoid forming a thick, smooth, uniform layer over the stem and over its terminal disk. |
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By making repeated small injections at intervals the protologist can observe the hemorrhoid becoming progressively smaller until it is finally obliterated completely. |
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The old course of the Mersey has been obliterated by the canal past Hollins Green to Rixton although the old river bed can be seen outside Irlam and at Warburton. |
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