Sentence examples for until it was smashed from inspiring English sources

"It's so beautiful, but it hurts me in my heart to see it here," Margaret Nadir Aziz said, looking up at the sculpture of the winged bull, a guardian spirit that protected the gates of the Assyrian city of Nineveh for almost 3,000 years until it was smashed to rubble by Isis in February 2015 – its destruction recorded on video for propaganda purposes.

It is led by the Shabab (Youth), the armed wing of the Islamic Courts Union, which ran Somalia with some success for a few months in 2006 until it was smashed, at the end of that year, by the invading Ethiopians, with American backing.

Lampedusa slept in the bedroom in which he had been born in the family palace in Palermo right up until it was smashed in a 1943 air-raid; eccentric wife and adored dogs notwithstanding, the most important being in his heart and head was his mother, the Duchess of Palma, a belle époque beauty who dominated him until her death in 1946.

The group formerly ran a cell in the Delta, northern Egypt, that carried out high-profile bombings until it was smashed in a series of raids last year.

Bash the lemongrass with a rolling pin until it's smashed, to help release the flavours more quickly.

It was smashed in the scuffle.

I drank the entire day until I was smashed.

Honestly, kids, it was smashing.

I dropped my phone yesterday and now it's smashed.

Paul Deacon and Iestyn Harris are the men in possession, and it would be especially tough on Deacon if he were to miss out given the quality of his performance until his cheekbone was smashed during Britain's only win of last year's tournament against the Kiwis.

Historians at the meeting suggested that there was little evidence that Heisenberg ever expressed moral scruples about building the bomb until the German Reich was smashed and he attempted to patch up his relations with the Allies.