Sentence examples for instructed to destroy from inspiring English sources

Poised to form the forbidden configuration, matter was instructed to destroy itself, and all life on Mars was extinguished in a trillionth of the speed of light.

The Marines are responsible for guarding classified documents, which they are instructed to destroy if there is a breach of the compound.

Stasi officers were instructed to destroy files, starting with the most incriminating – those naming westerners who spied for them, and those that concerned deaths.

The government said the authorities were instructed to destroy makeshift homes where most illegal immigrants live on the outskirts of Tripoli and other coastal cities.

Born Heinz Stahlschmidt, Mr. Salmide was a junior officer serving in Bordeaux as a bomb-disposal expert when, in August 1944, he was instructed to destroy the city's port facilities and docks, among France's most extensive.

His regional commissioners were instructed to destroy "all industrial plants, all the main electricity works, waterworks, gas works" together with "all food and clothing stores" in order to create "a desert" in the Allies' path.

A postscript instructed her to destroy the note after reading it, but she didn't.

The latter had instructed Brod to destroy his unpublished manuscripts after his death, but Brod defied the wishes of his late friend and instead edited and published the materials in the 1930s.

The submarine commander, whose name was Jost Metzler, had been instructed not to destroy American ships; even as tensions flared over American aid to the British, Hitler wanted to avoid provoking the United States into entering into the war.

Their traffickers instructed them to destroy their identity papers to make deportation difficult.

The agency has instructed parents to destroy any devices they have bought, and asked schools to be on the look out for smartwatches being used by children — and to request destruction of listening devices they identify.