Sentence examples for he razes from inspiring English sources

So at seemingly ruinous cost, he razes the cornfield and builds a ball field, and is rewarded with an endless stream of ticket buyers stretching to the rural Iowa horizon.

THE PIONEERING WORK of T. Berry Brazelton '40 in the field of developmental and behavioral pediatrics is perhaps best understood in terms of the norms he razed.

Then he razed Bonwit Teller on Fifth Avenue and battled the tenants of 100 Central Park South, which he wanted to tear down.

In all, he razed more than 10percentt of his fruit orchards this year, a decision that he said was a direct response to the immigration situation.

In a single move, for example, he swept 42 court officials from their posts and into exile, and he razed to the ground such troublesome places as the Tōdai and Kōfuku temples.

That same year, in what is now Ohio, he destroyed the Shawnee Indian towns of Chillicothe and Piqua; in 1782 he razed Shawnee villages and destroyed crops in the Miami River valley.

He razed three city blocks to make way for two major department stores and a downtown shopping mall and routed the new interstate highways so that they provided easy access to the downtown area.

Still, he pressed ahead with annihilation as usual: "If I cannot destroy a big high-rise anymore, because terrorists blew up two of the most famous ones, the twin towers, what does this say about our world?" He razed Rio de Janeiro Rome California Washingtonton, D.C.; Tibet Las Vegas Yellowstone National Parkrk; and more but decided against destroying Islamic symbols.

In 1983 he razed a Whirlpool factory in St .Paul, Minn .to build a new shopping mall.

When they defied him, he razed the city and massacred its inhabitants — though not its arms-making tradition.

A year later he razed the moneylosing Sands and built the $1.5billion Venetian on the site, tailoring it to business travelers and conventioneers.