Sentence examples for were destroyed because from inspiring English sources

About 175,000 fish were destroyed because of the infection.

Goodell said the tapes were destroyed because there was no reason for keeping them and that they could be leaked.

In May, two giant statues of Buddha -- an ancient heritage -- were destroyed because they depicted the human form.

To suggest that they were destroyed because of their "extraordinary violence" is neat, to say the least.

The sheep, imported from Belgium, were destroyed because health officials suspected they had eaten feed contaminated with tissue carrying mad cow disease.

In 2013, Turing was granted a posthumous royal pardon, but there are many more men whose lives were destroyed because of their sexuality, and who have lived with criminal records since.

It is topped only, perhaps, by his prideful glee that ten times as many Russians will be destroyed — because, as he puts it, we'll have caught them "with their pants down".

Nothing was destroyed, because nobody knew about Schad.

Wellheads were being destroyed, because they could not maintain pressure.

• PETA argued that dogs trained for fighting should be destroyed because they are unsafe and unserviceable.

"Clean athletes' dreams are being destroyed because of the reprehensible behaviour of other athletes and officials.