ultimate destruction

collocation in English

meaningsofultimateanddestruction

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ultimate
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ˈʌl.tɪ.mət/us
/ˈʌl.tə.mət/
most extreme or important because either the original or final, or the best ...
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destruction
noun[U]
uk
/dɪˈstrʌk.ʃən/us
/dɪˈstrʌk.ʃən/
the act of destroying something, or the fact of ...
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However, the general, immutable plan in which this occurred involvedultimatedestruction.
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Satellite infra-red images of the sea surface have revealed a wealth of eddy structures and have raised questions concerning the formation, propagation andultimatedestructionof vortex structures.
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Not all research is experimentation in the sense that it involves manipulation of or theultimatedestructionof human life in some form.
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And thisultimatedestructionis, after all, only the climax of four years of oppression, spoliation and privation imposed by a hated and brutal conqueror.
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Peace on any other terms than those means ourultimatedestruction, and that at no far-distant time.
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Secondly, and most important, it will prevent the creation of embryos for research andultimatedestruction.
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He knows that the country is slipping down the path towardsultimatedestructionand ruin.
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That spirit of complacent arrogance is the very spirit which spellsultimatedestructionfor this world of ours.
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What they have in mind is not just a competition of ideas but the promotion of revolution; that is, the subversion andultimatedestructionof free societies.
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The alternative is the law of the jungle, the law of "might is right", and the immediate degradation andultimatedestructionof all our civil liberties.
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So the courage and supreme skill of the central characters will not prevent theultimatedestructionof themselves or their class.
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Theultimatedestructionof the world will then come through seven suns.
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Only by theirultimatedestructioncan peace be restored.
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Just as it is absurd to suppose that humans are merely earth-born, so the possibility of theirultimatedestructionis inconceivable.
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The worsening condition of the house was one of the factors which made itsultimatedestructionunavoidable.
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Dhumavati representsultimatedestruction, the smoke that rises after the universe is destroyed.
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There are also provisions for impounding allegedly infringing copies, phonorecords, and other materials used to infringe, and for theirultimatedestructionupon a final judgment of infringement.
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