Further, the homes that were destroyed were abandoned, empty and wired with ingenious arrays of bombs.
The large former customs buildings and barracks are abandoned, empty, with blind windows above the road.
One was Nikolai Mikhailovich's; another was abandoned, empty since the death of its owner, two years earlier; the other three housed summer vacationers along with their year-round owners.
Homes across the U.S. sit abandoned, empty and vulnerable to vandalism, due in large part to the ongoing housing crisis.
The few that were not abandoned emptied rapidly today after a formal warning the Pentagon gave Western news organizations, saying reporters in the Iraqi capital should "not go near any military assets or buildings that are used by the Iraqi government".
On 31 October, the OPCW announced that it had met the deadline for destroying all declared equipment and facilities related to chemical weapons production, having visited 21 out of 23 sites, and received assurances from the Syrian government that the other two sites had been abandoned and emptied of chemicals and equipment, with these dispersed to sites visited by the OPCW.
Labour has been pressing the broadcasters not to abandon their threat to "empty-chair" the prime minister if he refuses to appear in TV debates.
For months during the conflict, the capture of towns and cities was quickly followed by a familiar routine, in which rebel fighters — along with most anyone who showed up — converged on abandoned arsenals and emptied their stores.
When I catch up with Goldsworthy after our trip, he explains: 'What has evolved is a project that goes beyond art as an object to be looked at, to something that is part of a landscape to be lived in.' The land he is working on is largely abandoned: a region emptied by economic desperation.
He finds hunting areas controlled by élite Tanzanians, who sublease them to operators, mostly Asian and French, who sell off the lions, then abandon the empty hunting blocks and lease new ones.
