Sentence examples for from being razed from inspiring English sources

But those who live there say its community spirit stopped it from being razed in the 1980s.

They had chained themselves to concrete blocks and fences in hopes of preventing the garden from being razed.

Longwood was founded by the business magnate Pierre S. du Pont, who bought the property in 1906 to prevent its late 18th-century Quaker arboretum from being razed.

The agreement, struck late on Wednesday, offers exactly what preservationists, elected officials and the Wright family have fought so diligently to accomplish: It keeps the house from being razed.

She and two neighbors are fighting to keep their houses from being razed for a $330 million tunnel and road that Steve Wynn insisted the state build before he agreed to develop a casino in the city's Marina district.

IN 1996, artists and others rallied to save the 1840's Hygienic Building, a boarded-up eyesore in downtown New London, from being razed to create a parking lot.

This novel tells the story of Macondo, a small town in the jungle, from its foundation to its being razed by a hurricane a century later.

WHEN a building that is part of Connecticut's heritage is in danger of ruin or being razed, money from the Historic Properties Preservation Fund is available to save it.

I witnessed one being razed, not far from my alley.

It was damaged on Sept. 11, 2001, and has been standing in its ravaged state ever since while battles were waged over insurance coverage, financing sources and the adequacy of protection from contaminants while the structure is being razed.

But the pastor had seen to it that the debt was paid off, and had also overseen the refurbishment of the church, arranging for the church to inherit a set of stained-glass windows from a nearby convent that was being razed.