Sentence examples for burning stores from inspiring English sources

Once darkness descended, mobs began looting and burning stores in poorer neighbourhoods.

Another Chinese resident described 50 or 60 young Tibetans burning stores owned by Chinese merchants as well as two fire trucks and two police cars.

Sherman, said Walter B. Edgar, a South Carolina historian, always denied giving such an order and contended that Confederates started the fire by burning stores of cotton to keep them out of Yankee hands.

Shortly before the crushing end of the final game of the Stanley Cup playoffs Wednesday night, with the home team trailing the Boston Bruins, 4-0, angry fans embarked on a four-hour rampage through the heart of the city, setting cars ablaze, attacking firefighters, looting and burning stores, and forcing frightened department store employees to take refuge in bathrooms for hours.

The position was strongly held by greatly superior numbers of Germans, Austrians and Ottomans, supported by well-placed artillery, but the garrison was seen burning stores and evacuating camps.

There was no widespread violence, no burning stores or looting, but L.A. made national headlines for another reason: LAPD officers swept up hundreds of protesters in mass arrests.

High levels of insulin from high carbohydrate meals mean that your body burns carbohydrates instead of burning stored fat.

They found that levels of a stress hormone were higher on rainy days, as were levels of a chemical that indicated the birds were burning stored fat a sign that they weren't getting enough food.

Consequential dormancy and major depression are characterized by withdrawal from the environment, lack of energy, loss of weight (from not eating and burning stored fat), and changes in sleep patterns.

Reporters who later examined the firefighters' jackets saw extensive shrapnel damage in the back, suggesting that the blast had occurred behind them, away from the burning store.

Contemplating a teen in a wartorn Middle Eastern country who rushes into a burning store and sacrifices his life to save another, Paul questions how this non-Christian hero can rightfully be sent to Hell (as non-Christians automatically are).