He managed to escape annihilation and get back to Santiago, Chile.

Unarmed, in an enemy country and without a leader, they will surrender to escape annihilation by my troops.

I have it on good authority that some of those animals, the largest of them, escaped annihilation.

Several hundreds Spanish didn't survive these hardships, but the force escaped annihilation.

To this day Kim believed it had been a miracle Voyager had escaped annihilation.

Napoleon narrowly escaped total annihilation at the Battle of Berezina, but his army was wrecked nevertheless.

Indeed, there were any number of undesirable possibilities; and the only wonder is that we escaped annihilation.

A few settlements had escaped annihilation: smaller, hidden holdings where the Demon Host did not come.

But was there a price that couldn't be paid, shouldn't be paid, even to escape annihilation?

Deathbird escaped annihilation, with the injured Bishop, using a private ship.