Sentence examples for and torched by a from inspiring English sources

In 1903, some 25 of Salvador's people were clothed in petrol-soaked sacks and torched by a plantation overseer.

After the civilians complied with the request, SAO Krajina forces shot at the assembled villagers, while houses owned by Croats were looted and torched by a mob.

Now the headquarters building is a wrecked and burnt shell, ransacked and torched by opponents of President Morsi.

In the 1980s, the then Archbishop of Canterbury, Robert Runcie – who opposed Margaret Thatcher's divisive economic strategies – was denounced as a "Marxist" by the Iron Lady's acolyte Norman Tebbit, and torched by the right-wing press.

The houses that remained standing were ruthlessly looted and torched by marauding Ossetian militias.

No other network has seen its bureaus both bombed by the American air force and torched by Egyptian revolutionaries.

In 1860, during the Second Opium War, the Old Summer Palace was ransacked and torched by French and British soldiers.

The marked houses were looted and torched by the TO and paramilitaries.

The tomb was pillaged and torched by Palestinian protesters hours after its evacuation.

As the nuns and their young charges cowered, both the convent and school were ransacked and torched by the mob.

The area has been ravaged by violence, with schools and hospitals torched by a terror group whose very name embodies an attack on learning – "Boko Haram" means roughly "western education is a sin".