The earth was scorched as hundreds of villages were wiped off the map.
If the Fox News poll of likely voters in swing states is accurate, the Republicans are in trouble, and the scorched-earth campaign tactics of the candidates and their super packs are likely major contributors.
Despite the legal scorched earth, there could still be a deal between the two warring moguls.
" The organization also accused the Chinese company, through its continued investment in Sudan's oil industry, of being "complicit in some of the worst scorched earth policies.
At each step along the way during this unseemly scandal, Americans have had every right to be disappointed -- in Clinton's energetic public lies, in Linda Tripp's definition of friendship, in the graphic detail in Ken Starr's referral to Congress and in the wild, scorched-earth partisanship in the House of Representatives.
They would have to implement the political equivalent of concentration camps, scorched earth, and martial law against the very base that elected them to Congress.
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Greg Smith, the disillusioned Goldman Sachs employee who left the firm in March with a scorched-earth op-ed in The New York Times, is back in the news as his tell-all book hit shelves last week.
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In 2003, the Sudanese government responded to an insurgency with a scorched-earth campaign against the rebels and the tribes they came from.
Scotland's energy minister said in terms of the energy market "abandonment of Scotland" or a "scorched earth policy" by the UK government if Scotland became independent would lead to consequences south of the border which "would be disastrous".
The impetus behind the president's space control veto, and the Air Force's scorched-earth reaction to it, appears to be political.
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The vast areas involved -- and some of the most inhospitable and scorched terrain on Earth -- make outside intervention risky.
It's dangerous because sometimes in their zeal for the spotlight or their love of scorched earth politics, candidates, campaign advisers and partisan commentators forget that both sides in this contest are us.
Ohio is another key state where the facts contradict Romney's scorched-earth message.
This scorched-earth warfare includes the killing, enslaving, and torturing of those with the misfortune of having homes in the oil regions, mostly the Dinka and Nuer tribes.
While Mr. Carney was waging this shocking, unprecedented scorched-earth campaign against the babyfaced pop star, Mr. Bieber's fans got into the act, unleashing all the naked, primordial savagery that social media can bring to bear on one's enemy.
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Recent eyewitness accounts from international aid workers assert that the Sudanese military is carrying out a scorched-earth program.
Because you guys didn't go scorched-earth with Microsoft and with the Xbox, so there is less incentive for people to upgrade in some respects.
Pereda took a sip it tasted of scorched earth and stones and left the glass on the bench.
They seized the opportunity, but the Indonesian army with the Timorese militias it had spawned left only scorched earth and ruined buildings behind.
BRUSSELS, Belgium (CNN) -- More than half a million ethnic Albanian refugees have fled what NATO calls Yugoslavia's "scorched-earth policy" in Kosovo, creating the beginnings of a humanitarian crisis, an alliance spokesman said Sunday.
But Communities and Local Government Minister Grant Shapps rejected the opposition's charges and accused Labour of leaving the coalition a "toxic legacy of debt" under their "scorched earth policy".
In April, Otellini set in motion the most extensive restructuring in two decades for Intel (See "Scorched Earth").
"Julian Assange certainly took a pretty scorched earth view initially, " says Ian Katz, deputy editor of the Guardian.
The war, said Asem, resulted in "a lot of aggression against the environment" -- most infamously, the destruction of Kuwait's oil fields as part of Hussein's "scorched earth" policy on retreat.
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