Sentence examples for blocks were razed for from inspiring English sources

Ralph Amendola, 65, and his younger sister, Sue, lifelong residents of Red Hook who run the store, have watched their neighborhood fall from its pre-World War II heyday into a desolate, crime-ridden corner of Brooklyn as the shipping industry moved to New Jersey and blocks were razed for a container port and a sewer line.

Over the next few years, the homes and businesses on these blocks were razed.

Entire blocks of African American-owned homes were razed for so-called urban renewal, displacing thousands of black families and the businesses and cultural institutions they had founded.

A block of homes in a middle-class black neighborhood was razed for the project, which is now well under way.

Its neighbours have been razed for hotels, and it looks to be going the same way.

Theirs is one of several houses that could be razed for a railroad expansion project.

World War II icon to be razed for concert venue in Costa Mesa.

"Our building in Chelsea was being razed for new condo development.

Do we really want West Virginia mountaintops being razed for Christmas light displays?

During the subsequent development boom here, blocks of historic buildings were razed to make room for modern offices.

Whole neighborhoods were razed to make way for drab modernist blocks, Mr. Vanden Boeynants was defense minister for seven years in the 1970's, and after serving as prime minister held his parliamentary seat until 1985.