Sentences with phrase «virtually wipes out»

That virtually wipes out any cost advantage of the strategy.

Since that shift, there's been a significant spike in both civilian casualties and insider attacks; on Oct. 19, the increasingly - emboldened Taliban virtually wiped out a 60 - man Afghan National Army unit like it was nothing.

Besides the obvious disincentive of contemplating the Grim Reaper, federal estate taxes alone can reach 55 %, and years of tax reforms have virtually wiped out most ways of minimizing them.

In fact, even a several - year span can be misleading, as a manager may be able to achieve above - average results by owning very high - risk stocks in a generally rising market but be virtually wiped out in the same class of stocks in a bear market.

Tens of millions of Christians have been killed in just the last century, in countries like Nigeria, Bangladesh, Sudan — in some cases virtually wiping out the Christian population.

In the Ukraine, Roman Catholicism was virtually wiped out.

A mid-decade re-districting earlier this, um, decade, virtually wiped out white Democratic House members in the state and without some say over the process in 2011, Democrats might not be able to fully capitalize on the vast growth in the Hispanic community.

For a few years, poaching declined, herds began recovering, and in 1997 USA Today proclaimed that «the illegal ivory trade has been virtually wiped out.»

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If just 10 per cent of the UK's 24,317 schools opened their facilities for community use, it could virtually wipe out the # 103m schools deficit.

Canadians saw that happen in 2003 and 2004, when the U.S. stock market was on fire, but Canadians who held those stocks had their returns virtually wiped out as the loonie soared.

Using your hotel points to stay at all - inclusive resorts is a perfect way to not only reduce your vacation expenses, but virtually wipe them out so you can focus on fun instead of the bill.

Sea otters, once bountiful along the California coast, were virtually wiped out by fur traders in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Their civilization was virtually wiped out by Spanish invaders in the 16th century.

The development of any environmentally safe power options in this state have been virtually wiped out.

As a result of demand, the pangolin populations of China, Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia have been virtually wiped out.

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Polls indicate their share of the vote in a general election would barely creep into double figures, wiping out virtually all of their MPs.

It will wipe out huge numbers of this much - loved species, virtually eliminating badgers from these areas, including many animals which are healthy.

Two hundred and fifty million years ago, the Permian extinction wiped out virtually all marine species and most life on land, clearing the path for the dinosaurs and setting back the rise of mammals by 50 million years.

Tap water wipes out virtually all the beneficial bacteria that aid in digestion, for example.

But you can easily wipe out 99 % plus of all paraben exposure, sending your intake so low that the effect on acne, antioxidant supplies and fertility is virtually zero.

The compression of interest rates across the developed world to virtually zero has wiped out the so - called «carry trade», where investors borrow a low - yielding currency and sell it to buy a higher - yielding one.

The fact that virtually half of them believe the student loan crisis is a more serious threat to the U.S. than global warming, which may wipe out entire cities, is a telling indication of the severity of this country's educational debts.

It's usually after detonating a smart bomb, which will wipe out virtually everything on the screen anyway, so you likely won't be losing any points from it.

Subsequently it has turned out that the flicker produced by these is a serious hazard to epileptics, and virtually intolerable to everyone else - the result being that all the affected buildings (most of the site) have had to be fitted with expensive custom - made window blinds to eliminate the problem, wiping out any savings made by fitting the damn turbines in the first place.

The majority of cheetahs were wiped out during the last ice age; the remaining cheetah population is inbred such that all remaining cheetahs are virtually clones of each other.