Sentence examples for looted many from inspiring English sources

Mobs of rioters in Vietnam torched at least 15 foreign-owned factories and trashed or looted many more following a large protest by workers against China's recent placement of an oil rig in disputed Southeast Asian waters, officials said Wednesday.

In 1999, Christie's and Sotheby's did a survey of the market for all antiquities, not just looted — many had come out of grand-tour collections — and it was somewhere between $80 million and $90 million, worldwide.

Protesters also destroyed and looted many Chinese-owned businesses.

The raiders destroyed 17 of the village's 41 homes, and looted many of the others.

At least a dozen buildings were torched and looted, many of them local businesses that police said were total losses.

Immediately after Saddam fell, insurgents and others looted many of the 96 known munitions sites, as well as local armories and weapons stockpiles.

Western powers pressured the rebels to leave, and they did less than two weeks later, but only after looting many government offices, cleaning out all the ammunition dumps and assassinating some enemies.

Almost all of the families that once lived in this affluent neighbourhood had fled and rebels had moved in, taking out the last loyalists snipers and looting many of the homes.

After the Korean War, churches and Buddhist temples were confiscated and looted, and many were converted to other purposes.

Throughout the territory in and near South Ossetia, Georgian villages have been looted and many buildings were set on fire.

Instead, as the Americans allowed the city, including its armories, to be looted — in many cases by members of the ancien régime — while issuing fiats that disbanded the old army and banned the Baath Party, my Iraqi friends became first bewildered and then fearful.