1.   If the money was not paid promptly, the gangsters would quickly put a man out of business by destroying his shop.

2.   Scenes that should conclude with climactic wallops, like the one in which Rosa destroys her shop, fall instead with muffled thuds.

3.   All the four shops were completely destroyed.

4.   Haji Bashir, a villager in Pakistani Kashmir whose shop was destroyed by shells, said he worries that the Indian cease-fire is only a ploy.

5.   It destroyed the shop in Bishkek, reduced one car to rubble and damaged two others, it said, quoting the Emergencies Ministry in the Central Asian country.

6.   Last month, his shop was destroyed by an Ethiopian tank.

7.   Late Sunday, three Palestinian-owned shops were destroyed in a gas balloon explosion apparently caused by settlers, Israeli police said.

8.   Lt. Priyanto of the Bandung police said the bodies were charred in the fire that destroyed several shops in Bandung, capital of West Java province.

9.   Officers used batons and tear gas to disperse crowds, and eyewitnesses said Hindu rioters armed with swords and iron rods looted and destroyed several shops owned by Muslims.

10.   Seventeen shops were destroyed.