Sentence examples for destroyed in action from inspiring English sources

A small number of attacks were made on ships travelling between Britain and Gibraltar from May onwards, but these cost the unit eight Condors destroyed in action and seven in accidents for no sinkings.

It looked, as one disgruntled tourist observed, as if it had been destroyed in enemy action.

In 1756 Alaungpaya (1714 60), the Myanmar king, conquered the Mon and their French allies, whom he put into slavery; the town was destroyed in these actions and had little significance until the 20th century, when the British began drilling for oil in the Irrawaddy basin near Chauk and sent the oil to Syriam for refining.

"Sharon's name reminds me of … martyrs from my village," said Ghethan, 65, as he surveyed the ruins of buildings destroyed in the military action.

Still on Belhamed, the 20th Battalion was destroyed in a counterattack, an action observed by a distressed Kippenberger through field glasses.

However, records relating to Overton's actions were destroyed in the 1973 National Archives Fire and the awarding of his decorations was delayed.

After Norridgewock was destroyed in a third raid in August 1724 (an action in which the influential French Jesuit priest Sebastian Rale was killed), the war died down.

I destroyed in the past".

It was destroyed in 1840.

Erythrocytes were destroyed in a hypotonic solution.

Their deportation, in the view of most Western historians, fits the United Nations' 1948 definition of genocide: an action intended "to destroy in whole, or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group".