Sentence examples for destroyed first from inspiring English sources

Robert Gates, the Pentagon chief, says Gaddafi's air defences would have to be destroyed first – tantamount to declaring war.

This, in turn, could make China quicker to launch them if it feared they might be destroyed first.

Books, posters, statues and photographs were destroyed, first spontaneously by adversaries and then systematically by a military regime bent on erasing their memory.

Many have lost faith that any candidate can deliver them from their misery, including Jean-Claude Gouboth, whose soft-drink shop was destroyed first by the earthquake and then, when rebuilt, by Hurricane Tomas.

They watched in horror from afar through the 1920s and 30s as the Jewish homeland of their youth was systematically destroyed first by the Communists then by the Nazis.

He's not alone in his forecasts: McKinsey has issued a warning that up to 140 million upper middle-class jobs will be lost over the next 10 years, a blood-letting every bit as vicious as the mechanisations that destroyed first agricultural jobs and then factory ones.

Unfortunately, the house is destroyed seconds later when 'Li'l Bandit' and Wiggum's police car crash through the house.

But remember — Whom the gods would destroy, first they make pensioners at 40.

This time, they would destroy first and search later — at their leisure, in the interrogation rooms.

Whom the gods would destroy, first they make mad, said Longfellow.

The operation reversed the search-&-destroy method; this time they would destroy first & search later in the interrogation rooms.