Sentence examples for were ordered to destroy from inspiring English sources

They were ordered to destroy port facilities, radar installations and guns overlooking the harbor, then withdraw.

The reporters were ordered to destroy all emails, reports and documents relating to their HSBC investigation.

The troops were ordered to destroy radar installations and big guns and then return to England in a raid aimed at gaining experience for the D-Day invasion that would come less than two years later.

It was moored in Shanghai when in September 1943 news broke of Italy's surrender to Allied forces, and its crew were ordered to destroy it rather than risk it falling into Japanese hands.

At the same time, the 27th Division's engineers were ordered to destroy the Beersheba water supply.

Elements of the ARVN 7th Infantry Regiment defending the area were unable to hold off the Viet Cong, so they were ordered to destroy their equipment and join other South Vietnamese units in the provincial capital.

When that was not deemed sufficient, he was ordered to destroy it.

Perhaps when you are ordered to destroy things, you develop an instinct to spoil everything.

Julius calls a person unknown from the village phone box and is ordered to destroy the tape.

At the same time the German air force was ordered to destroy the RAF, whose strength and capability was regularly underestimated by German air intelligence.

Though Prince was ordered to destroy the pictures, he won an appeal, with the court ruling that Cariou's copyright had not been infringed.