In the abbot's somewhat outlandish style, the former archbishop is referred to as one 'whose memory is not to be annihilated'.
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In order for younger generations to have a free hand, older generations need not be annihilated ; they simply need to get out of the way.
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Hence, if the living creatures were removed, all these qualities would be wiped away and annihilated.
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A constant tension between competing discourses, between creating, preserving, and annihilating memories, characterized the set-up of war remembrance.
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Similarly, a let-binding can be spontaneously annihilated due to the presence of a use of weakening the position of which is not syntactically evident.
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The consciousness of the world's vastness, its measure, which 'is our freedom' (43) is lost and globablity is annihilated.
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We say 'space is annihilated' but we have annihilated not space, but the sense thereof.
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The basic idea is that for parametric functions, any use of ana during the computation of a catamorphism will always be annihilated by cata in the final result.
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Most have seen their savings annihilated and their pensions devalued, and all have had to face up to the degradation of medical care and personal social services.
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Since agents cannot avoid being annihilated once they visit a black hole, the only way of protection against such processes is identifying the hostile node and avoiding further visiting it.
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Longer the chromosome is, less effective is the crossover for instance, because it annihilates a large part of the genotype ordering for changing just one small part.
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Nothing is annihilated in the opera.
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Let us imagine that the remaining heavenly bodies had been annihilated, so that the only points of matter now existing in the universe are those that constitute the star itself.
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We do not want part of that fleet to be annihilated by imports about which we do nothing.
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After all, why be annihilated on a shopping list of policies when one will do the trick?
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