It was impossible to determine exactly when he left, because records more than five years old were routinely destroyed.

Their work was being routinely destroyed with an odd sort of viciousness.

Mr. Golden said the records of black people were routinely destroyed in the 19th century.

And families were routinely destroyed because of the system.

Those seeking asylum routinely destroy all their documents, so the dead are thought to have had no identification on them.

The French police say that they have no records of the incident because such records are routinely destroyed after 10 years.

As a branch of military intelligence, the service maintained strict security, and paperwork was routinely destroyed.

These were the sorts of things that were routinely and methodically destroyed when found.

Furthermore, photobiont cells are routinely destroyed in the course of nutrient exchange.

But embryos have been destroyed routinely at fertility clinics for decades, long before the prospect of stem cell research came along.