Sentence examples for continued to raze from inspiring English sources

The city, despite protests from many quarters, has continued to raze entire blocks of buildings — including many of the small, sturdy homes built by immigrants — in the surrounding neighborhood.

Protesters in several cities continued to raze buildings and set cars afire on Wednesday, directing some of their venom toward the United Nations, whose peacekeepers stayed riveted in the seats of their armored personnel carriers, not firing a shot, as the rebels marched into downtown Goma.

Yet humanitarian groups estimate that some 300,000 people have been killed or died as a result of the conflict there and at least 2m more have been driven from their homes in the past four years, mostly by government soldiers and allied Arab militias, which continue to raze villages and terrorise Darfur's civilians.

But tremors are still being felt, as the club's formerly star-studded roster continues to be razed.

Indonesian forests cannot continue to be razed for palm oil and timber at current rates if we want to keep orangutans.

Wednesday's lower figures came as a surprise because many environmental groups had been warning of a second consecutive spike in the annual deforestation numbers, as the forest continues to be razed to make way for grasslands for cattle grazing, soy plantations and logging.

It continued to thrive until the 3rd Century AD when it was razed to the ground by the Romans following the rebellious rule of Palmyrene Queen Zenobia.

If tourism continued to prosper in the small farm town, her house could be razed next to make way for a concrete parking lot.

The castle was virtually razed to the ground in the operation, although a brick building continued to be used as a prison into the 18th century.

Faced with land costs that exceed the value of older homes by hundreds of thousands of dollars, builders continue to buy older houses, raze them and build speculative mansions that sell quickly in a lively market.

But what about those who choose not to participate in this program supposedly intended "to raze those barriers of ignorance that continue to separate Christian from Jew and Jew from Christian"?