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If it slips into a more authoritarian nationalism, he will be the man who snuffed out Russia's attempt to escape its autocratic traditions.

Are we about to see another revolt against government secrecy snuffed out, or has WikiLeaks ushered in a more lasting change?

He snuffed out his cigar, and began to drink whisky.

There was a flicker of interest in the problem a few years ago but it was snuffed out by the recession.

Like candles guttering in the wind, three of the worlds eight subspecies of tigers have been snuffed out.

But even this flicker of life may prove to have been snuffed out in the first quarter of this year.

At the end of the poem, the embers of my fire are about to be snuffed out.

Men, women, children - lives snuffed out in a few seconds.

Judge Roland Fasano told Clark that he'd snuffed out the life of a promising young woman and virtually destroyed the lives of two families.

No one believes such a resilient and protean enemy can be completely snuffed out by 2014.

for the evil man has no future hope, and the lamp of the wicked will be snuffed out.

The work is hard, the sun is hot, and aspirations for a better life are constantly being snuffed out.

Yet as we share their hopes, but we also must remember that those hopes could be snuffed out as they were in Tehran in 1979.

Yet how often is the lamp of the wicked snuffed out ? How often does calamity come upon them , the fate God allots in his anger?

The evil old society snuffed out the lives of her three children.

Yet if companies stop investing for long periods, capitalism will have the life snuffed out of it.

The light of the righteous shines brightly, but the lamp of the wicked is snuffed out.

Extinguishing big fires still requires conventional methods, but oscillating electrical fields have snuffed out smaller fires.

Some Labs projects go on to become real Google services, and others are quietly snuffed out.

These glimmers may be snuffed out by the unprecedented tightening in credit now under way.

Thousands of lives were snuffed out during the famine.

When I expose your eve harrington ways, your bright future will be snuffed out like a candle.

When supervolcanoes blow their tops, the world's climate is altered and life is snuffed out regionally and challenged globally.

The city authorities saw things differently, particularly after the military coup that snuffed out democracy for two decades in 1964.

I don't think anybody wants to be part of a generation that's snuffed out an animal that's been in the oceans that long.

whatever hell winds blow , this is not a flame destined to be snuffed out.

This breaks the chain reaction and the fire is eventually snuffed out.

When Liverpool did have possession the attacking threat was easily snuffed out.

Demonstrations are rare and normally snuffed out swiftly in Vietnam.

In the past the voice of dissension had been quickly snuffed out.

He snuffed out the match with his fingertips .

A tragedy because a human's potential was never realized. A tragedy because a spark was snuffed out before it ever became a flame.

The remnants of person-to-person relationships, with their sympathy and sentiment, will be snuffed out.

An underground coal fire has been snuffed out in China after decades of burning.

Then she snuffed out the candle. " Voila , that is brighter, gentlemen. "

He was snuffed out by the Mafia.

The sharp recovery that began last year as fuel costs eased and demand picked up was soon snuffed out when oil prices rose again.