Sentence examples for land exploded from inspiring English sources

A1 Violence at China Protest Protests by villagers in China's southern industrial heartland over government appropriation of their land exploded into violence as thousands of police officers with automatic weapons and electric stun batons suppressed the demonstrations, residents of the village said.

The process that saw the land explode in value, sometimes in unpredictable ways, is a window on the way development deals are done, the way a swath of undeveloped land can enrich some of its owners and the way the process can leave some residents with uneasy questions in its wake.

It landed, exploded and spread dry, white dust over the pants and shoes of the four officers from the unit's Truck 6, of Brooklyn.

The lower Kil Brook, where the car eventually landed, exploded out of a large culvert and flooded the railroad tracks -- where, Mr. McCrum said, it shut down the Hudson Line of Metro-North.

The control room, the auditorium, and every other room on Earth where people were watching the landing exploded in celebration.

Land mines exploded across the French countryside and dead animals littered the ground.

Then early this year, roadside land mines exploded as company buses transporting employees passed by.

Mr. Basayev was reported to have lost a foot earlier this month when a land mine exploded beneath him.

In the village of Kud, two land mines exploded under buses carrying Indian paramilitary troops, the authorities said.

HATAY, Turkey — Eight police officers were killed and nine were wounded when a land mine exploded early Sunday in southeastern Turkey, the semiofficial news service Anatolian Agency reported.

A French soldier serving with a United Nations force was killed today and five others were wounded when a land mine exploded in southern Lebanon.