Sentence examples for burned set from inspiring English sources

In the fall of 2005, as banlieues all over France burned, set alight by teens and immigrants enraged by their marginalization and their harassment by the police, Marine Le Pen prepared to release her memoir.

The victim's family said Sunday in a statement that he had been beaten, dragged and "burned (set afire)." But Mr. Meredith, who inspected the body, said that description was misleading and may have given the public the wrong impression.

Those feelings intensified a year ago when the pattern repeated itself near Los Alamos, N.M., after a controlled burn set by the Park Service got of out control and burned nearly 80 square miles and more than 400 housing units.

When she deals with the roiling life of Russia -- its politics, history, culture, obsessions and its human defaults and human superabundance -- Tolstaya flares and circumscribes her subject like a back-burn set to contain a blaze.

The experts' five designs consisted of between 9 and 25 prescribed burns, set over periods ranging from 3 to 8 years, and covering from 7900 to 26,100 ha.

Cavic said he had been denied the gold medal in Beijing because of a faulty timing machine, and Phelps burned to set the record straight.

Around the time that Linney was working through this, a house she owned in rural Connecticut burned down, set ablaze when a clump of rags soaked in linseed oil caught fire.

NAIROBI, Kenya -- Last month, Kenya was the toast of the wildlife conservation world when it hosted a spectacular "ivory burn," setting fire to $172 million of illegal wildlife goods to protest elephant poaching.

"The combustibles burned, thereafter setting the couch on fire".

No injuries were reported but at least 150 homes burned down, setting off widespread anger over the state's handling of the fires.

Liberation Square took its name after a revolution in 1952 carried out six months to the day after mobs burned Cairo, setting fire to the symbols of colonial rule and status.