Sentence examples for conflagration as from inspiring English sources

And now the conflagration, as I said, in southern Lebanon.

He treats the founding conflagration as a Palestinian-Israeli war, when it was an Arab-Israeli war.

Fears of anarchic urban mobs date from Shakespeare's time, and Prime Minister David Cameron has summoned these old fears, describing the present conflagration as "senseless".

There is a risk of a regional Sunni-Shiite conflagration, as Saudi Arabia, which backed Bahrain's crackdown on Shiite protesters, has advocated arming Syria's opposition.

He had the idea, Mr. MacKay explained, that the newspaper put out an illustrated extra featuring his depiction of the "awful conflagration," as he would call it in his lithograph, which is on display here.

Local crews succeeded in quenching random blazes and also cooling buildings which were burning too fiercely to be extinguished, thus containing the conflagration as bleating sheep and squealing pigs escaped.

At the end of the day, there is no such thing as ironclad protection against accidental or planned nuclear conflagrations as long as the U.S. and Russia possess thousands of nuclear weapons.

In Furst's new novel, "The Foreign Correspondent," the time is 1939, the place Europe, with conflagration approaching as inevitably as a bomb falling from a Stuka.

While the spark came from the U.S., enough powder had accumulated in Europe to produce a major conflagration here as well.

Again, a disastrous revolt was narrowly avoided, but the leadership lives in fear of further conflagrations as the election gets closer.

Because we do have a long-standing and unbreakable bond with Israel -- and we will be dragged into the continuous conflagrations, as we have been over and over these past years.