Taking heavy losses, the attackers were forced to retreat to avoid annihilation.

After 1945, he came to believe that a strong world government was the only way to avoid mutual nuclear annihilation.

He said always give your enemy a Golden Bridge, a way to back down but save face, so you avoid mutual annihilation!

If you are set free, will you tell your people that surrender is the only way to avoid annihilation?

Instead, he requested that his "army" be allowed to retreat to avoid its own encirclement and annihilation.

If her own forces ran into serious trouble, she could call on Pandiculia's troops as relief, which gave her a means of retreat and avoiding annihilation.

His divisions were forced to move only at night to avoid annihilation from the circling fighter-bombers.

In danger of being cut off, Zhang Zuolin ordered a general retreat to avoid total annihilation.

Beatitude through suffering is an illusion, since it requires a reconciliation to the fatality of pain in order to avoid total annihilation.

In some cases, however, it is possible to boost the pair apart using external energy so that they avoid annihilation and become actual particles.