Sentence examples for demolished state from inspiring English sources

Apart from the now partially demolished state of their homes, residents have to make do with makeshift hanging latrines (reminiscent of the scene in the film Slumdog Millionaire where the main characterfalls into a pit of excrement whilst using a hanging toilet).

We so focus on our SATs that our performance on the test demolished the state's three-point growth and the nation's zero-point growth.

In August 2009, Okpadio and her family were forcibly evicted from their home which was demolished under state authorities' orders.

Her 53-page decision thoroughly demolished the state's argument that New Jersey could not be held responsible for not treating same-sex couples equally because it was the federal government that denied benefits to couples in a civil union, not the state.

A day later, Niederauer's thesis was demolished by State Street, which tracks buying and selling within the $12 trillion in assets it holds as custodian for institutional investors.

In remarks Tuesday, Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab denounced "those... who want to demolish the state and issue calls to demonstrate and occupy certain places, which is totally unacceptable".

The Internet "is not so potent as to demolish every state's regulatory scheme as [it applies] to the sale of goods and services".

CHICAGO — The classroom building at Northern Illinois University where a gunman killed five students and himself this month will be demolished and replaced, state officials said Wednesday.

Mr. Salemme, who never forget how sickened he felt watching the farm house his mother had lived in for 50 years be demolished by the state in 1955 to make way for the Connecticut Turnpike, said he won't ever leave his house -- which ironically was built on Marsh Hill Road and Salemme Lane (named for his family) with money the state paid his mother when it condemned her home 46 years ago.

By George Packer April 9, 2010 Cooper Union, the East Village hall where Abraham Lincoln demolished Stephen Douglas's states-rights argument for the extension of slavery a hundred and fifty years ago, was the setting last night of Tariq Ramadan's first U.S. appearance since the State Department lifted the six-year ban on his visa.

"I refuse to sit back and let that legacy be completely demolished for basketball," stated Deng.