Sentence examples for believed sheltered from inspiring English sources

Therefore the Dutch moved against the weaker Bakloan, who they believed sheltered proponents of the massacre, setting out on 23 November 1629, and returning later that day "having killed many people and burned most of the village".

Many Afghans believe shelters are little better than brothels and tarnish a girl's reputation.

Victoria, she believes, was sheltered but was not the dupe of Melbourne.

Sameer pretended to serve me, and I pretended to believe him, sheltering behind his strong right arm, letting him have his way because I dared not be independent.

Prosecutors said they were bound for Somalia to join Al Shabab, a group believed to have sheltered operatives of Al Qaeda who were involved in the bombings of the United States Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.

The stone and wood structure, perched on a hill above the west side of Van Cortlandt Park, once served as a guardhouse for Germans who fought on the side of the Colonists during the Revolution, and is believed to have sheltered George Washington one cold night in 1783.

My Blythe said he believed Murphy had sheltered under rocks and had access to a source of water.

Many residents said they believed the shelter would set the now-thriving neighborhood back to its ragged and treacherous days.

Western and Pakistani intelligence officials say he has sent many fighters, via Pakistan's Baluchistan province, to attack NATO peacekeepers in Afghanistan; he is also believed to shelter foreign and local terrorists.

The operation sent up to 400 American, Afghan and other allied soldiers and commandos to an area of hundreds of square miles in an area of Oruzgan Province believed to shelter Taliban fighters and sympathizers.

As across the West, a vast majority of Wyoming land believed to shelter new reserves of oil and gas is owned by the federal government, so the Bush administration's decisions about access are bound to have a direct impact on energy supplies.