Sentence examples for were ransacked by from inspiring English sources

Between 2000 and 2003, the center's offices were ransacked by the State Security Agency, and 27 employees were jailed.

But all of these had been disturbed or were ransacked by the people who stumbled on them, so none was properly recorded by archaeologists.

The threats against Carlos Fernando Chamorro, whose offices were ransacked by Sandinista thugs and whose father was killed by Somoza, have closed the Orwellian circle.

Bragg retraced their steps to Blackheath and Smithfields in London, popping in to the Savoy Hotel to remind us that this was once the sumptuous Savoy Palace, home of the dreaded John of Gaunt, whose wine cellars were ransacked by desperate poll-tax rebels who helped themselves to his collection.

In 2003, during the Al-Aqsa Intifada, Shikaki was attacked and the P.C.P.S.R. offices in Ramallah were ransacked by a mob after the center published findings, based on more than four thousand interviews, showing that only ten per cent of Palestinian refugees would choose to live in Israel, over other forms of compensation, if they were offered the "right of return".

This week, a convoy of Unicef trucks carrying 200 tons of supplies was seized, United Nations warehouses were looted of 89 tons of food and aid offices were ransacked by armed men outside Mazar-i-Sharif, where the Northern Alliance had just seized power.

Part of the hospital was ransacked by thieves.

(Their house was ransacked by Ho Chi Minh's troops).

London closed its Tehran embassy after it was ransacked by a mob, in 2011.

There are sobering stories, too, including soccer's being ransacked by racism.

The embassy was closed in 2011 after being ransacked by anti-British protesters.