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1. The very same creature he had just seen decimate a dozen soldiers within seconds, and all he had to fight it with now was a ten inch blade
2. Soon my people will decimate themselves by waging a pointless civil war and my mother will die
3. The goal is to prevent interplanetary civil wars that could decimate entire populations
4. and decimate the populations of these two cities
5. judgments of God will decimate both the earth and the unsaved earth dwellers
6. In it, Brereton said that neither he nor General MacArthur didn’t really deserve the praise for the novel tactics used to decimate the Japanese invasion fleet
7. ‘’The enemy will probably use his preferred tactic when hitting a tough obstacle: he will try to infiltrate around our flanks, then will establish blocking positions along our resupply and withdrawal routes, to be ready to decimate us if we decide to retire under the pressure
8. The terrorists had built up a devastating arsenal of chemical and biological weapons; crude they may be, but because of their sheer capacity, their combined effect would decimate the immediate population
9. The crown presents and some smart manipulative defence lawyer endeavours to decimate
10. nuclear weapons to decimate Russia… Boeing 747 crashes into the Bronco
11. to decimate yet another country that acts aggressively toward another country
12. The crabs may decimate your snail population
13. Unfortunately, I had to be satisfied with more of the same: industrial-strength support, steel reinforcement, and the ever-present danger that something might give way and decimate a population
14. If they could spy upon that meeting they would gain enormous amounts of information that could be used to harass, harm and decimate the abolitionist movement
15. I was going to decimate all competition in cross-country, even with stopping to watch the leaves fall along the way
16. Nations plunged into civil wars that served to decimate
17. We have to decimate their army to the point of no return
18. Either I decimate this place and stalk out, probably to destroy the entire world—but hey, I’ll be alive—or I let them put me on ice and trust that those who love me will find a way to rescue me
19. Mabeuf opened his bookcase, took a long look at all his books, one after another, as a father obliged to decimate his children would gaze upon them before making a choice, then seized one hastily, put it in under his arm and went out
20. However, at the worst point, the loss would be almost $200,000, or more than enough to decimate the accounts of the unwary
21. My experience is that a stop loss will decimate the robustness of a trading strategy if it is built into the strategy and becomes an integral part of it
1. The hole spread over a large area, possibly three or four metres across in places; muddy throughout its entire extent: deep, claggy, black mud, sloppy with water and dotted with bits of green from the decimated plants which had been wrenched from the ground by its making
2. He looked around the room and saw the empty bottles of exotic juices, a tea set and the decimated bowl of fruit
3. had destroyed all the crops and decimated the fields and
4. The northern quarter, having been decimated by the Destroyer, continued to lie in ruins for the general population refused to near the blackened crater where the city's greatest monuments once stood
5. gold? It disappeared beyond the city's decimated wall
6. The cattle population had been decimated and there were no cars to fill the atmosphere with carbon monoxide
7. they decimated an army!
8. With their armies decimated so, the Makii would be forced to make an appearance
9. long and taxing trip was on the verge of being decimated
10. Now our lads were paying the butchers bill and quite a few laid dead and wounded but not nearly as many as the Fusiliers who it seemed were being decimated
11. It was now that we walked into a storm of shrapnel and machine gun bullets I could see mates of mine dropping on all sides and we hadn’t gone more than a few yards over the ground in front of us and we were already being decimated
12. Turner decimated the ranks of the Directorate of Operations, his reasoning being that in all too many instances our field operatives were forced into relying on foreign nationals of less than savory character
13. This was one of the biggest reasons we had been almost decimated that and the stupid order to walk
14. Pictures of the building utterly decimated, still smouldering
15. It lay in ruins, decimated, rubble from the ancient buildings and new office blocks mingled alike in a mile-wide scattering of stone
16. A modern army, composed of the finest men and material in the world, had been moved recklessly into a death-trap, to be decimated by what proved to be a handful of half-starved Spaniards
17. Units have been decimated within hours of arriving at the front, but we were doing very, very well
18. had decimated half his town
19. 11th, one company invited the remaining members of other companies who had been decimated by the attack on the Twin Towers to share their available office space
20. monastery had been decimated by the ash plague
21. miles of the cave had been so decimated by the ash plague that
22. The monsters had decimated each other in their internal war, and only a few dozen of them had escaped alive
23. Our populations have been decimated by war more times than any other race
24. His race was being decimated, the demons having arrived in the heart of gargoyle territory
25. And on their twenty-third attempt, after a battle that lasted for eleven days, Zarkog’s decimated forces were forced to withdraw
26. The troops who had been sent out to secretly flank the escapees had not only been discovered, they had been decimated by the sudden shaking of the ground
27. had not only been discovered, they had been decimated by the sudden shaking of the ground
28. He threw back his crimson cloak drawing his two distinctive Su-Katii blades, and with a war cry he charged into the decimated Tanarians’ fulfilling his bloodlust and completing his betrayal
29. As they scanned the room, they noticed another decimated body scattered into pieces on the floor
30. On seeing the growing panic the cavalry Commander decided that the day was lost, his small reserve force was massively undermanned – if they advanced into the fray, they too would be decimated
31. Groggily he had gathered up his weapons, removed a bag from Lewem’s decimated corpse and began to stagger back up through the eerie silence of the deserted shrine
32. "Eat death you bastards!" he screamed at the window as another Rotham ship was decimated
33. soon discover other decimated colonies
34. Air Force responded by launching an intense bombing operation that forced the communists back into the countryside after being decimated by the air strikes
35. ” And with that, Dave headed back to the Odyssey with only two jumps, each of which would have decimated both Olympic records in the long jump and pole vault
36. They had decimated more than one pirate installation
37. The ship that had single-handedly decimated his father’s forces and killed both his father and his brother was back
38. hunting (trophy, hides and ranchers) and poaching have decimated
39. should be aware that some species of sharks have been decimated
40. ranchers) have decimated cheetah populations
41. Cougar populations have been decimated in eastern North
42. Even after the Swordsman had turned to pursue, the missiles had their target locks and decimated the Swordsmen force
43. Captain Osna said, “When half the country is decimated, it is easier to keep in touch with the other half, lad…”
44. The message was clear, and failure to adhere to it almost decimated the earth and cost most life to be wiped out forever
45. Now decimated and missing their leader and their explosives experts, the survivors broke ranks and ran across the main road, to the relative safety of the houses on the northern side
46. She then spoke of her parents’ death from an epidemic while she was sixteen, how she left her decimated tribe to travel South, then West, to eventually stop in the Greek city-colony of Ephesus, on the coast of Asia Minor
47. Their habitats, ranges, food supplies, and populations are being decimated by the palm oil industry
48. “It is hard to give a solid assessment at this point, Herr FeldMarshal, but most of the SS leadership has been eliminated by the Time Patrol and their offices across Europe have been decimated
49. the Ukrainian countryside has been virtually decimated through
50. ‘’We had to interrupt our mission when the Neanderthal group we were studying was decimated by a pack of cave hyenas, Farah
1. Besides, the current system decimates the planet, it abandons most of the people, it conduces other people to make illicit acts to survive, it generates a garbage trash and it transforms our Earth in enormous garbage can, if we don’t stop with the consumerism, we will pollute until the sidereal space
2. ‘No,’ I said, ‘she decimates the weak and stupid with gay abandon
3. The large fragment of earth decimates
1. The two brothers hated the countryside and spent most of their time wandering the fields with a pair of shotguns and decimating the wildlife
2. His fear was that Yellow Cough might sweep through the crowded sett, decimating his fighting forces
3. Flying shrapnel from each bomb erupted through the crowd decimating and injuring everyone in their path
4. decimating a staggering amount of other plant and animal life as
5. Some had insisted that only sound, solid tactics and reliance on training, granted the victory, while others believed that the ability to surprise and strike first was a pre-requisite to decimating the opposition
6. Barrad moved through his men back towards the giant who was decimating his lead troops
7. With almost a casual indifference, the horde banked and dove on Jasra’s winged forces decimating them with claws and flames while I continued to sing
8. She was a brief, pivotal encounter who had played her role of decimating my perception of how others saw me, and then she escaped unscathed
9. Leaving dozens of dead and wounded comrades behind in the ravine, the surviving enemy infantrymen bravely pushed on their assault up the western slope of Hill 310, despite the withering machine gun fire decimating their ranks
10. In fact, I received this morning a report from Dong-Dang saying that the American aircraft that were attacking and decimating a Chinese column near the village stopped their attacks immediately once the surviving Chinese soldiers withdrew inside Dong-Dang
11. My planes have succeeded in decimating the Chinese invasion force at the border and what is left of it is advancing very slowly while steadily suffering more losses
12. Under the furious eyes of Farah, who had quickly returned her engines to idle setting, the Israeli fighter-bombers each performed three more passes, firing either unguided rockets or their 20mm guns and decimating the Hezbollah flotilla
13. streets; decimating everything in his path
14. Confronted with the martyr missiles being thrown at them by Arafat’s desperados, the Jews responded by decimating their dwellings and deporting their families
15. She watched Zax plunge through the straggling clusters of wounded, the V-shaped ridge of his tail sweeping a wide path, decimating those he hadn’t trampled directly overtop
16. viral outbreaks and new diseases decimating the global population and between the two of
17. The procedure had dragged on for years, decimating the better class like a pestilence
18. The accommodations had all the comforts that “converted troopship” implies, but it seemed a great adventure until the ship hit a Force Nine in the Bay of Biscay, decimating the faculty and the student body alike with seasickness
19. Before the hurricane veered away from a direct hit on the city, decimating the towns of the Gulf Coast
20. And if those assets consist of bonds with big unrealized losses, such losses will rapidly become realized, decimating net worth in the process