Meanings of escaped annihilation in английском

At Perez Dasmariñas, in the east of Cavite Province, a battalion of infantry narrowly escaped annihilation.

The door had narrowly escaped annihilation by fire; but the curtains in the front-room window were nearly white.

England had to spread her energy out over a vast empire with an army that had barely escaped annihilation.

Its history was no doubt as stirring as that of others of the border castles, which more fortunately escaped annihilation.

Yet even in their ruin and their isolation the pediment-figures of the Parthenon are the sublimest creations of Greek art that have escaped annihilation.

Of the great host that set out from Europe, only a few thousands escaped annihilation in Asia Minor at the hands of the Turks.

But they escaped annihilation by machine-gun fire and stormed through the upheaved earth into Gommecourt Park, killing many Germans and sending back batches of prisoners.