Eking out a living is tough, and the vagaries of climate that bring drought or floods can easily wipe away in a few days the gains of many years.
Pakistan says it has increased the number of soldiers at border posts like these as part of a campaign in Mohmand this year to wipe out the Taliban in the area.
You could double a stake or wipe it out in the space of a few days.
However, losing to unseeded Craybas was still tough for Williams to take and she had to wipe away tears in the press conference that following her defeat.
He was grinning broadly and waving his trademark white handkerchief - a handkerchief that he sorely needed to wipe away perspiration in the boiling heat of the packed stadium.
As it passed, Speaker John Boehner pledged that Republicans would quickly draft a budget that would wipe out deficits in a decade, and he challenged Democrats to do the same.
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"He and his deputies and other law enforcement agencies have worked tirelessly to wipe out crime in our county, especially targeting the drug dealers who spread the disease of addiction among our residents, " said John Mark Hubbard, president of the Mingo County Commission.
If she leaves it in a taxi, the hospital can wipe everything on it, or if her work data is stored in a container, it can wipe the hospital information while leaving her personal information and family photos intact.
With Spain's economy booming and growth predicted to exceed 3% for the fourth year in a row, Mr Aznar has promised to wipe out the budget deficit in 2001, to cut income tax still further, and to create full employment by the end of the decade.
An inevitable increase in freight costs is not going to wipe out the benefits of manufacturing in low-cost countries abroad.
They got in after rallying for an extra-inning victory over the San Diego Padres in a one-game tiebreaker, and then proceeded to wipe out the Philadelphia Phillies in three straight opening-round games.
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It can wipe out a species in a given watershed (see: Atlantic salmon).
Many hedged annual production only to wipe out incremental gains in the price of gold bullion.
However "repressed" interest rates and therefore savings returns feel, it would take much more of this to wipe out the debts in the graph at the top.
This must indicate the regulators want to wipe out the traders in leveraged gold and silver futures to get speculation and volatility out of the gold and silver markets.
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Here again in 2011-2012, the crisis proved good for gold at first, but the whole move has been unwound as global credit deflation sucked the air out of gold futures and options, and wipe-out losses in other assets forced even true believers to quit their positions.
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Polls show four of them tightly bunched together with John McCain using the bounce he got in New Hampshire and South Carolina to wipe out what was once a solid Giuliani lead in the state.
Bendtner - heavily criticised after a succession of misses in Saturday's win against Burnley - scored twice in the first half to wipe out the 2-1 lead Porto were protecting from the first game in Portugal.
Their Westminster wipe-out only occurred in 1997, long after Margaret Thatcher left office.
One can only wipe out student loan debt in bankruptcy court under the most dire of circumstances (think terminal and chronic illnesses).
Romania, for example, whose currency dropped 20% last year, has seen a big rise in labour costs wipe out much of its price advantage.
These higher yields equate to lower bond prices which, in effect, wipe out years of interest, considering there is an inverse relationship between price and yield.
Carnival had said in March that the sinking of its Costa Concordia cruises ship in January could wipe out profits this year as people shunned cruises.
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Until then, attempts like those of the Swiss Bank Julius Baer in 2008 to wipe it off the Web only increased its notoriety and cachet with leakers.
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Such a public step would probably give the government no option but to force some executives to resign and to wipe out shareholders' equity in return for the fresh capital.
That brings me to the second momentous conclusion of Mr Fisher's admission that a 6.5% drop in residency can wipe out profits - which is that (many would argue) it is far too risky a basis to run a company charged with looking after the welfare of 31, 000 vulnerable elderly people.
The Congolese Army's in the midst of an offensive to try to wipe out these militias and capture the most powerful Mai Mai leader in the region, Jedieaun(ph).
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