But now, global warming threatens to wipe their island from the face of the earth.
The building has been torn down and has disappeared from the face of the earth.
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Only in Mr Mundie's nightmare scenario would Linux and other open-source software wipe Microsoft from the face of the earth.
What we can do is keep fighting each and every day until we eliminate this disease from the face of the Earth.
He says he wants the research to help prevent "one of Britain's most incredible, iconic animals from disappearing from the face of the earth".
It takes courage to remove a keyboard from the face of a smartphone and replace those buttons with a giant screen, as Jobs did with the iPhone.
Since smallpox was wiped from the face of the earth, there are only two countries that had any stockpile of this agent, and they are the US and Russia.
Too many times throughout history, the aim of war has been not just to defeat the enemy but to eradicate them and the fruits of their culture from the face of the earth.
These were pretty drastic steps, with complicated consequences, but they do not seem to have caused the heavens to open up over Iceland, to wipe the country from the face of the earth (unless you're counting all those erupting volcanoes).
Ponting himself tried to con the umpire into giving Paul Collingwood out to a catch which came from the face of the pad, and he charged the umpire - something that is definitely not in the spirit of the game.
After complaints from yak herders, the Bhutanese banned foreign climbers from crawling up the face of their sacred mountains.
Aside from changing the face of a prospective docent, teaching museums make learning about art less formal and fussy.
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Subsequent efforts to distance himself from that stance, in the face of intense criticism from the public and politicians of both parties, has only put into even sharper focus his pandering to this community.
The question, of course, is how the device will fare in the face of intense competition from the Apple (AAPL) iPad 2 and an assortment of other rivals.
The United States, in that case, in the face of requests from the Arab League and in the face in a United Nations Security Council resolution, determined what contribution it could make appropriately to enforce that resolution.
Celtic's speed and movement was a delight to watch, but Rangers' doggedness was denying them threats on goal until a fine Hinkel cross was met by the head of Barry Robson and looped from 15 yards off the face of the crossbar.
In late October the Buffalo Sabres of the National Hockey League were locked in a scoreless tie with the New York Islanders when, suddenly, Sabres right wing Ales Kotalik scored on a booming shot from the top of the left face-off circle, one-timing a pass from Jaroslav Spacek past Islander goalie Rick DiPietro.
The exact future of the tournament is in doubt at the moment in the face of boycott threats from the French and English clubs.
Not only would succeeding mean diluting the Lego brand beyond recognition, but the closer Lego got to its goal the more competition it would face from the likes of Disney and Hasbro.
From Viking ownership to management to coaching staff to players, Brett receives the warm embrace of affection that he expected from the Packers, for which he was the face of the franchise for 16 years.
The price difference is primarily the result of the stockpiling of some lower priced diamond assortments which currently face competition from the recent sale of stocks of similar quality Zimbabwe diamonds.
The Amphibious Combat Vehicles, or ACVs, are the centerpiece of the revised plan, since they would have to do the heavy lifting in terms of getting warfighters from ship to shore in the face of enemy fire.
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Koumas delivered a low cross from the left across the face of goal but the Wolves striker could not make contact as he dived in from close range.
If it doesn't get the money, the banks could fail, Cyprus' government finances could be ruined for years and the country could face expulsion from the union of 17 countries that use the euro.
The Street continues to back away from chip stocks in the face of slack end-market demand for PCs and other goods and signs of bloated inventories.
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Jackson, perhaps seeking to erase from his body the face of the father who beat him, underwent multiple plastic surgeries.
Other problems stem from pragmatism in the face of budgetary difficulties.
For all their attempts at agreement this week, America and Europe are far from uniting in the face of the more nebulous threats of the post-Soviet era.
International bailouts have kept Greece from defaulting in the face of an ongoing recession and low tax revenue, but lenders have demanded hugely unpopular government budget cuts in exchange.
But investors are hesitant to pay a premium for a nongrowth business, and the newspaper industry is facing a steady decline in readership and advertising rates in the face of competition from the Web.
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