In the months after the announcement, several of the theatre's star directors and performers announced their departure, and in an open letter the remaining staff decried Dercon's appointment as "an irreversible turning point" that represented a "historical razing of identity" in favour of a "globalised consensus culture".
A25 Congress Halts Bridge Funds Congressional Republicans decided on a legislative razing of two Alaskan bridge projects that had hurt the party's reputation for fiscal austerity.
Simply stated, over the past 50 years, the New York City Office of Rent Control, the New York City Conciliation and Appeals Board, the New York State Division of Housing and Community Renewal and the appellate courts have consistently ruled that "demolition" under the rent regulations does not require a complete razing of the building.
But for his opponents, his harsh dismissal of the protesters gathering in Istanbul and Ankara as "bums," and in particular his allowing the police to crack down on what began as a peaceful demonstration against the razing of a park in Taksim Square, is public evidence of a longer slide into authoritarianism.
Josephus provides an unlikely account of the razing of a hill on which the Acra had stood, yet his description of the end of the Great Revolt (70 CE) provides additional evidence for it being located south of the Temple Mount: As the other buildings mentioned in the account all stood to the south in the Lower City, this also places the Acra there.
A state of alert has been declared for Uttar Pradesh, a state of 200 million people where the 1992 razing of a 16th-century mosque by a Hindu mob in Ayodhya sparked India's worst sectarian clashes.
And in 2009, officials ordered the razing of a tomb in a village outside Chongqing in central China, after a local newspaper compared its size to that of a basketball court.
Edited by the British actor Alan Rickman and the journalist Katharine Viner, "My Name Is Rachel Corrie" is assembled from journal entries and e-mail messages written by its title character, a 23-year-old American who was killed in March 2003 by an Israeli Army bulldozer while protesting the razing of a house in the Gaza Strip.
Taksim had been turned into a battleground in June after disputes over the razing of a public park evolved into the largest antigovernment rally the country had had in more than a decade.
