Sentence examples for for the conflagration from inspiring English sources

Mr Obama's policy of waiting for the conflagration in Syria to burn itself out is failing.

It mentions followers of a religious leader named Christus, in connection with Nero's decision to use them as scapegoats for the conflagration of Rome that he himself was responsible for.

A day after Egypt's new Islamist leaders held talks with their political opponents for the first time about solving the crisis, each side blamed the other for the conflagration outside the palace, apparently extinguishing any hope they might quickly resolve their differences.

"Where is the sense of humanity?" A day after Honduran officials blamed a prisoner's setting fire to his mattress for the conflagration, the authorities backtracked somewhat, saying that it was still the most likely explanation but that investigators had not ruled out the possibility of an electrical problem.

So Mrs. O'Leary proved an especially apt scapegoat for the conflagration, fitting perfectly the temper of the time.

So many reasons for divine wrath; so many lit matches for the conflagration -- all in a nation blind to cataclysm's normalcy.

In The Towering Inferno the adulterous businessman is immolated – the first death we witness on screen – as he tries futilely to find a way out of the conflagration for him and his lover; shortly after this, the woman taken in sin jumps from the skyscraper.

Gove's silliness reached a new peak in his comments on the First World War in which he attacked left-wing historians for failing to blame Germany for causing the conflagration.

By his own account, Mr. McVeigh took revenge for Waco on the second anniversary of the conflagration.

In the first twenty-four hours, for instance, the conflagration consumed brush at the incredible rate of an acre per second.

For Steinem, the "conflagration of consciousness" that transformed second-wave feminism into a national movement occurred on November 18 , 1977 when Bella Abzug — having persuaded Congress to authorize, and fund, a National Women's Conference, in Houston — took the stage.