Sentence examples for been raided from from inspiring English sources

Wearing costumes that seem to have been raided from the polyester section of a vintage clothing shop, dancers flit between roles of bratty children and irritated mothers with little distinction.

The second unloaded a monstrously tacky version of Rossini's "Semiramide," one whose sets and costumes seemed to have been raided from a museum of theatrical kitsch, not excluding souvenirs of Liberace-era Las Vegas.

It was possible that some of the stock reported could have been raided from other communities, in which case the new owners would be unlikely to reveal their sources.

Nyajime was sent to guard the cows that had been raided from villages associated with the opposition forces, and from there she managed to escape through the bush with three other girls.

As Fountain Chambers barrister Ian West put it recently: "Barristers' chambers will be raided, from the bottom up.

The group bought three boats, including the Mavi Marmara, the one that was raided, from a company owned by the Istanbul city government for $1.8 million.

There's no major art inside, but it feels instantly ancient; Corinthian nave columns were raided from a long-gone temple to Aphrodite.

They also pointed out many of the same unpaid bills from previous years that the governor had brought to light, like $8 billion in delayed payments to schools and community colleges, and $250 million that was raided from a fund dedicated to transportation and treated as revenue.

"We moved away burnt bodies but everyone who was over 30 was murdered and abducted by Assad's thugs into unknown locations," he said, adding that the village was "raided from three sides by tanks and over 30 vehicles of security forces and thugs".

Compared to figures presented in November, when a summit failed to agree a budget, some €50bn was raided from these areas in order to accommodate competing national claims on the two biggest items in the budget – the CAP and the cohesion funds that go mainly to eastern Europe and the less developed parts of the union.

And when they see headlines declaring Gove ordered money to be raided from funds allocated to tackling the place shortage and used instead to pay for free schools – regularly referred to by Labour as a coalition vanity project – they rightly get antsy.