Some may sympathise with their concerns about mood-altering drugs, but the church wants nothing short of the global obliteration of psychiatry.

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We analyze, inspect and dissect, often to the point of total obliteration, having disregarded the original totality of whatever it was we were assessing in the first place.

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In a careful study, Anthony Cordesman, of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, no friend of Israel, argued that even in the doubtful assumption that such a nuclear exchange could be contained within the region, the resulting horrors would include the deaths of tens of millions and the obliteration of whole societies.

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With both nations facing the possibility of nuclear obliteration, a new approach to national security clearly was needed.

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Would such a coalition lead to the gradual obliteration of the Lib Dems' separate identity?

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In "No. 9" (1948) we watch Rothko grappling with the near-obliteration of traditional notions of pictorial space.

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What is striking about the Obama technique is that it's not so much criticism as something closer to political obliteration, driving his opposition out of the political arena altogether.

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With all artists, because of the undertow of history and self-loathing, there is a tremendous push toward self-obliteration that occurs onstage.

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But prior to its obliteration by Apple, mobile phone giant Nokia was a major player in the development of emerging market infrastructure, applications and capability raising.

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