Sentence examples for flame was lit from inspiring English sources

Exactly 30 years after the Olympic flame was lit in Sarajevo in 1984, the city was in again in flames.

When the flame was lit back in 1984 I was seven and lived just across from the Olympic stadium.

As the flame was lit on the Olympic torch in Rio, John Vidal looked at why the city found it so hard to clear up its waste.

The accident came just hours after the Olympic flame was lit in Greece, at the start of a 15-week journey that will culminate with the 5 August opening ceremony in Rio de Janeiro.

"The Balkans," he said, "is where the flame was lit that ignited the Great War, and it is no exaggeration to say that if we do not get this right, it could lead to a confrontation from which the world might not recover".

The Scafell flame was lit at around 12 45 BST.

Then a new Olympic flame was lighted and taken out of Tibet.

The Olympic flame was lighted in the morning to burn 24 hours.

The flame was lighted by the sun's rays using a burnished-steel mirror mounted in the ruins of a sanctuary where Greeks prayed during the original games, nearly 3,000 years ago.

There is now a race to complete costly renovations before the centenary flame is lit.

"It's experiences like this which is where the flame is lit, and if they close we're all going to suffer.