Sentence examples of "set alight" in English
Numerous houses were set alight during the shooting, probably by tracer bullets and other munitions.
Во время обстрела загорелось много домов (видимо, от трассирующих пуль и других боеприпасов).
More than 200 homes were wrecked and looted, scores of motor cars were set alight or smashed up, and dozens of workshops, shops, kiosks and other social facilities were smashed and plundered.
Свыше 200 квартир были разгромлены и разграблены, десятки машин были сожжены или разбиты, были разворочены и разграблены десятки мастерских, магазинов, киосков и других объектов общественного назначения.
And its birth reveals the secret of our star's extraordinary resources of energy, because the Sun, like every other star, was set alight by the most powerful known force in the universe.
С рождением нашей звезды возник и источник её энергии, потому что на Солнце, как и на любой другой звезде, пылает самая мощная во вселенной термоядерная реакция.
During the years in which they were operating, the CIA-supported gangs of mercenaries set alight, destroyed and looted dozens of schools, small shops, village houses, barns, cooperatives, dairies, warehouses, means of transport, sugar cane plantations, sown fields, cattle and countless other property belonging to the people.
За годы своей преступной деятельности банды наемников при поддержке ЦРУ сожгли, разрушили и разграбили десятки школ, магазинов, крестьянских домов, ферм, кооперативов, животноводческих хозяйств, складов, транспортных средств, плантаций сахарного тростника, посевных площадей, уничтожали скот и другое народное имущество.
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