Sentence examples for were partly destroyed by from inspiring English sources

The plant was never built, but he ended up acquiring the site himself and spending millions to clean and restore it, including planting wetlands that were partly destroyed by Hurricane Sandy.

In addition to the retail establishments that were clearly looted, other shops and newsstands were partly destroyed by localized collapses, and it was not clear yesterday if the scattered merchandise and open cash boxes inside indicated more looting or simple disarray.

But in 1870 it was partly destroyed by fire.

The once-elegant St. George was partly destroyed by fire in 1995.

The original settlement of Taurisia, founded by the Taurini, was partly destroyed by the Carthaginian invader Hannibal in 218 bce.

Cyzicus was partly destroyed by the Arabs in ad 675 and probably further damaged by a series of earthquakes.

The mid-IR emission is dominated by the contribution of the shocked dust grains, which may have been partly destroyed by sputtering.

Orihuela suffered several epidemics of plague, was partly destroyed by an earthquake in 1829, and has often been flooded by the Segura River.

It was partly destroyed by the Pontic king Mithradates VI but recovered under the Roman Empire, despite frequent ravages of barbarian raiders.

Another was partly destroyed by Jewish prisoners, who somehow managed to marshal the strength of the powerless during a 1944 revolt.

Long considered one of the world's greatest archaeological treasures, Palmyra's ancient Roman complex was partly destroyed by the Islamic State during its earlier 10-month occupation of the nearby modern city.