Sentence examples for lit the blaze from inspiring English sources

In fact it was London's working class women, a year earlier, who were the vital spark that lit the blaze that showed the way to trade unionism.

The revelation that important financial archives had been destroyed early on the morning of the fire sparked rumours that corrupt government officials had lit the blaze to create a public distraction from their illicit activities.

Survivors said the devastated areas looked as though they had been hit by a nuclear bomb, and those who lit the blazes "must pay".

The police say that he lighted the Miljean blaze and that, earlier in the day, he had started another fire outside an apartment building in the same neighborhood.

As in the ad women I was lucky enough to meet in my career, plus the ones who lit the way for us, blazing through the glass ceiling wielding pens like blowtorches.

Matthew Bent, 17, did not take a plea deal in the horrific attack, which made national headlines in October 2009 after Jarvis allegedly poured the alcohol on Bent's command and Mendez flicked a lighter, igniting the blaze that put Brewer in the hospital for months with excruciating burns over two-thirds of his body.

Think of the decathlete Rafer Johnson at the top of the Coliseum in Los Angeles in 1984; the archer Antonio Rebollo lighting the caldron with a blazing arrow in Barcelona in 1992; the aboriginal runner Cathy Freeman running up the steps to the waterfall in Sydney in 2000; and, most electrifyingly, Muhammad Ali, his left arm shaking but the torch steady in his right, in Atlanta in 1996.

Frances Rickman, daughter of a clerk assistant to the Commons, whose family lived at the Palace, sat down at 3.30am to write a breathless account of events, reassuring relatives in the country that she was safe, though the fire was not out and her room was lit by the "still blazing House of Commons".

Ahead lay the blazing lights of Times Square, first among them a vast white sign advertising, of all things, a Department of Homeland Security Web site — www.ready.gov — with the slogan "The Fight Against Terrorism Begins at Home".

GREGOIRE LAKE, Alberta (Reuters) - Canadian officials on Sunday showed some optimism for the first time that they were beginning to get on top of the country's biggest wildfire, as cooler weather and light rain stopped the blaze from growing as much as feared and winds took the flames away from oil sands boomtown Fort McMurray.

Then they saw the blaze lighting up the predawn.