Instead, the baby was born five months before the time limit, so the local authorities destroyed the home and took the cow.

Enraged by their refusal to cooperate, the authorities destroyed his parents' home and they, too, fled.

The Soviet authorities closed or destroyed most of the town's synagogues.

The Soviet authorities also destroyed the old town and only after protests by local people was total destruction of the old city center stopped.

The authorities destroyed the main film vault which at that time consisted of 52 productions.

The Soviet authorities destroyed all the bells and took most of the icons to Moscow.

The authorities have mounted a search and destroy campaign.

Since 1988, authorities have been destroying all diseased cattle.

Working from these lists, the authorities destroyed great numbers of stamps.