Sentence examples for by razing from inspiring English sources

The troops reportedly retaliated by razing a delta village.

The country is accused of promoting agriculture by razing the Amazon forest.

He has subdued his Kurdish minority by razing their villages and spraying them with poison gas.

Only by razing what he was and what he might have become does Daniel have the possibility of freedom.

In China the government transformed cities in a single decade by razing slums, issuing draconian rules about residency and education permits, and so on.

Land grabbers often follow, or stake their claim to virgin forest by razing and burning the trees and turning the land into pasture.

The squeeze has been exacerbated by the razing of the main teaching building and the construction, which is continuing, of a new one.

The coming of the Olympic Games has produced dozens of homeless outcasts by the razing of inner-city areas like Techwood to make room for the Olympic village.

The announcement claimed it was time to turn the ugly scar of a lot, left by the razing of houses, into a place of beauty to be designed and used by the community.

In the 1960s and '70s, the jobs started disappearing, and the white flight to neighboring towns began, accelerated by the razing of the Flats, which drove many black residents into formerly white neighborhoods.

The sprawling roads, farms, towns, and cities of the young republic completed the job by systematically razing the wolf's habitat.