Which preposition to use with annihilation

of Occurrences 119%

The previous combinations of animal life and vegetable life passed away with the era in which they flourished; one class succeeding another, each emerging from, and stepping over the annihilation of its predecessor, till we come down to the presentis there no future progress for this earth as a planet?

to Occurrences 6%

Alarmed at a declaration which threatened annihilation to his line, while at the same time he was more than usually under the influence of his better feelings, he promised that if the charge of murder could be removed from Balthazar, he would no longer oppose the union.

by Occurrences 5%

The small British and French forces in Serbia, greatly outnumbered, retired before the enemy's advance from north and east, but saved the Serbian army from total annihilation by protecting its retreat to the southern frontier.

as Occurrences 3%

As to me, this world of phenomenaif it have all its truth in these phenomena, and no more profound significance, if it have nothing beyond itself to reveal to mebecomes a repulsive phantom, in whose presence I curse the consciousness which has called it into existence, and I invoke against it annihilation as a deity.

with Occurrences 2%

It will be so arranged as to combine total annihilation with bewitching music.

at Occurrences 2%

A large and tender kindness of disposition is the father of the thought, it may be; but the thought seems to gain ground and take shape, that so much of apparently human mind and heart as the dog possesses cannot be destined to annihilation at his death, but must live and enlarge in another sphere of existence.

for Occurrences 1%

"It is annihilation for them or for us.

against Occurrences 1%

["As the result of a conference called by the War Office it has been decided to wage a war of annihilation against the warble-fly.

into Occurrences 1%

It was the Church, occupied as she was with the interests of civilisation, who again assisted commerce to emerge from the state of annihilation into which it had fallen; and the "Peace or Truce of God," established in 1041, endeavoured to stop at least the internal wars of feudalism, and it succeeded, at any rate for a time, in arresting these disorders.

Which preposition to use with  annihilation