Sentence examples for because they were burning from inspiring English sources

"The room was so dark it was hard to see, and dirty because they were burning crude oil inside to stay warm," says Zhang, now 68.

In Auto da Fé, Sephardic Jews are driven out of Catholic Brazil ("We left because they were burning Jews"); Huguenots escape persecution in Brittany; Christians leave Sierra Leone and Mosul.

When Harley took a 6% stake in Net security firm CoSine Communications in 2003, he wrote to CoSine saying his research indicated they had a good product, but couldn't sell it because they were burning through cash.

There were desert fires on the horizon because they were burning the oil to stop the infidel from being able to use it.

New financing is essential for Deezer and Spotify because they are burning through significant amounts of cash.

"They lose a lot of weight because they're burning so many calories," said Robert Onesti, who is running the project for Global Diving.

Some of these are obvious, because they are burning so fast that they will never make their three billionth birthdays, which is the minimum amount of time that Dr Turnbull reckons is needed to go from uninhabited rock to technological civilisation.

"These new data confirm that college students are misusing and abusing Rx stimulants in a misguided effort to manage their lives," Steve Pasierb, president and CEO of the Partnership for Drug-Free Kids, said in a news release, "because they are burning the candle at both ends, feeling the need to perform better and achieve their academic and social goals".

The EPA reported on Tuesday that greenhouse gas emissions fell by 4.6% in 2011, because power plants were burning less coal.

Unfortunately, at the beginning of February, I decided to close down RU & BG to focus efforts on Romania, and because RU & BG were burning a lot of cash.

He wasn't feeling emotional; his eyes were burning because of the tear gas his army was using on the protesters.