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Extinguished in sentence

119 examples of Extinguished in a sentence

They'll get used to this, and they, too, might begin to see anything different as dirty, something to be hated, something to be extinguished, like lights to be put out, one by one, until darkness becomes a way of life.
But the promise of joint innovation between these two nuclear superpowers wasn't totally extinguished.
Even the harsh judgment I hold in my heart against my brother or my sister, the open wound that was never cured, the offense that was never forgiven, the rancor that is only going to hurt me, are all instances of a fight that I carry within me, a flare deep in my heart that needs to be extinguished before it goes up in flames, leaving only ashes behind.
I had just extinguished it.
Now, the island of Mauritius is a small island off the east coast of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean, and it is the place where the dodo bird was discovered and extinguished, all within about 150 years.
But it is a set of values that cannot, in my view, be extinguished.
I grew up knowing who he was, and I knew all about that fateful plane ride that extinguished three incredibly bright flames just like that.
The humour is broad, unsubtle and, in the final scene where a BBC studio fire is extinguished by urinating on it, crude.
In the end the workers reignite some of the oil wells they previously extinguished.
The crude output measures that are used, such as the number of medical procedures carried out or the number of fires extinguished, miss a crucial point: while responding to the need for such services is a good thing, reducing the need for them would be better.
First, they could clarify the pari passu clause, specifying that it guaranteed comparable treatment for existing bondholders, not for existing bondholders and earlier bondholders whose claims were already extinguished.
But, as a result of no-recourse mortgages in many US states, the entire mortgage debt was then extinguished, even if the value of the home was too low to cover the balance still due.
An extreme case is Spain, where mortgage debt is never extinguished, not even after a personal bankruptcy.
Now is the time for Europe to ensure that this hope is not extinguished.
If the coup had succeeded, Turkey likely would have descended into open civil war with no end in sight, and with all hope for democracy extinguished.
That much was understood widely by entrenched Arab dictators, who saw to it that their intelligence and security corps extinguished any flame before it could spread.
With the light that had been guiding reform and integration efforts now extinguished, nationalism in the region predictably started to rise again.
As the political scientist Guillermo O’Donnell observed, democracy’s flame can also be extinguished gradually when dreams of justice and social progress fail to materialize.
But Russian grievances are not extinguished.
For example, at the current rate, the world’s fish resources will be extinguished in the next half-century.
Soon after, CASS President Wang Weiguang thundered in an essay that class struggle would never be extinguished in China.
Finally, imagine the effect of all of this on Greece’s financial, fiscal, and social-security ecosystem: With bank shares skyrocketing, our state’s losses from their recapitalization would be extinguished as its equity in them appreciates.
In fact, Rosanna’s potential could have been extinguished at the moment when her new husband demanded that she end her education – a demand imposed on many child brides.
The fact that it took a populist plutocrat to do it underscores the extent to which the American labor movement has been extinguished.
They extinguished billions in external indebtedness by generating and sustaining large current-account surpluses.
The enclosure movement extinguished common rights to land and allowed landowners (at the cost of great suffering, to be sure) to experiment with new, more productive techniques.
With every life that is extinguished, we are losing a bit of our humanity.
Some risks now have a lower probability – even if they are not fully extinguished.
In fact, inflation was all but extinguished.
What these countries do not seem to recognize is that it is the petrodollar-funded export of Wahhabism – the source of modern Sunni jihad – that has gradually extinguished more liberal Islamic traditions elsewhere and fueled the international terrorism that now threatens to devour its sponsors.
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