Sentence examples for in razing from inspiring English sources

But the tall guy has been more interested in "building a relationship with the voters of New Hampshire" than in razing Al Gore.

The contrasts between these attitudes is striking evidence that the Taliban were by no means acting in a "typically" Islamic manner in razing the statues.

Marozzi asserts that while Temur, like Genghis Kahn, specialized in razing cities and slaughtering their inhabitants, he also had the wisdom to rebuild, and Islamic art and architecture flourished on his watch.

That is why modern doctrine sees no point in razing cities. "You need to figure out what pieces of the city or what things you have to attack in order to get the results you want," said James A. Lasswell, a retired colonel at the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory in Quantico, Va., who played a pivotal role in rewriting the Marines' doctrine on urban combat.

The OMON units also took part in razing and looting the outlying villages around Voskepar.

And how did HRW's "military expert" (apparently Marc Garlasco, whose ideological bias and lack of expertise were evident in "Razing Rafah," and in the 2006 Gaza beach incident) make such determinations while observing from an unnamed distance and location outside of Gaza?

His father's albums had photographs of the Polish campaign of 1939, first with a "boy-scout atmosphere" and culminating in razed villages.

When an IMF delegation visited Pakistan in September, terrorists bombed the Marriott hotel in Islamabad, razing it to the ground.

When the Dutch invaded in 1630, razing most of the town's churches, they spared the Igreja da Sé, and for obvious reasons: it's in a perfect spot.

More than 120 blazes are still burning in New South Wales, razing at least 300,000 hectares of land and killing thousands of livestock.

As with monocultures in agriculture, razing the landscape of human prosymbionts has serious medical consequences, usually resulting from re-colonization by a predominant species that was previously held in check by the overall community.