Sentence examples for break down gates from inspiring English sources
Isaiah 45:2 NIV I will go before you and will level the mountains; I will break down gates of bronze and cut through bars of iron.
Still the Trojans and brave Hector would not yet have broken down the gates and the great bar, had not Jove turned his son Sarpedon against the Argives as a lion against a herd of horned cattle.
JOHANNESBURG — An ugly squabble between Nelson Mandela's eldest grandson and more than a dozen other family members over the bodies of three of his children intensified Wednesday afternoon as the police broke down the gates surrounding the burial site to fulfill a judge's order that the bodies be exhumed and returned to a nearby village where the ailing Mr. Mandela himself is to be buried.
Police and a bailiff arrived at his property on Wednesday afternoon accompanied by Mr Mandela's daughter Makiziwe, the BBC's Gringo Wotshela in Mvezo reports, breaking down the gates with an axe.
Linda Katehi -- as a student at the Polytechnic, experienced tanks breaking down the gates of her school and fellow classmates -- dozens of them -- killed by a brutal military dictatorship.
As OSCE representatives were conducting negotiations in Slovyansk, a pro-Russia mob broke down the gates of a regional state television and radio company building in the eastern city of Donetsk and seized the building as about 500 protesters outside chanted "Slovyansk is a hero city," UNIAN news agency reported.
All these inmates, still in their chains, escape from this jail, and they were breaking down the gate of this jail, and crawling in their chains over this gate to escape.
[Bettison] said: 'We are trying to concoct a story that all the Liverpool fans were drunk and we were afraid they were going to break down the gates, so we decided to open them'".
He said that 'we are trying to concoct a story that all the Liverpool fans were drunk and we were afraid that they were going to break down the gates so we decided to open them'".
