They are not bishops who have to worry that their communities will be annihilated if they step out of line.

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Were Sunday's by-election results repeated at the national level, the USDP would be annihilated, reduced to a parliamentary rump of its unelected military MPs.

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However, it is being corralled into financial instruments like bonds, which may well be about to be annihilated through inflation, rising interest rates, recession and austerity.

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To summarize, Iran's conditions for meeting with the Obama administration are that the US abandon Israel (which as Ahmadinejad reiterated at his annual Holocaust denial conference on Tuesday, must be annihilated), and that Obama take no action whatsoever against Iran's nuclear program.

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This makes sense for such large files, as a means to cut the downlink time and save your capped data plan from getting completely annihilated in one fell swoop, but don't be expecting to get the best possible quality from it.

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Since, as every schoolboy knows, when matter and antimatter meet, they annihilate each other in a burst of energy, the equal amounts of matter and antimatter should have annihilated each other long ago and the universe should now be filled with energy and little else, which is evidently not the case.

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