Their weapons flashed bolts of lightning that smashed through the armoured plates of the robots, penetrating vital parts and vaporizing them in an instant.

American intelligence officials believed they had penetrated important parts of the organization, but the hydra had many heads.

Earlier this year the Pentagon discovered that a coterie of computer hackers had penetrated large parts of its sensitive though unclassified computer network and had even taken control of several military computers.

Mr. Walker said the airline believes that part of the engine "disintegrated" but did not explode, since the debris did not penetrate other parts of the jet.

It was said that he commanded sixty diseases in the form of demons that could penetrate different parts of the human body; offerings to him were made to prevent those illnesses.

Dakota warriors penetrated parts of the defenses enough to burn much of the town.

The Abbasids penetrated the region and occupied parts of it, but their control was never very effective.

Working through the Jews scattered all over Europe, the two brothers had informants penetrating large parts of the entire Holy Roman Empire.

Several former slate mines penetrate the hillsides, and parts of what was once Braichgoch Quarry can be visited on a tourist trip called "King Arthur's Labyrinth".

Intensive agriculture had as yet penetrated only the most favoured regions, such as the alluvial soils of northern France and parts of western Germany.