Sentence examples for not razed from inspiring English sources

Not gentrified, exactly, and certainly not razed, but modernized.

The Bolshoi, in the end, was not razed.

On advice from English Heritage, she asked the then Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott to ensure they were not razed.

Many of the buildings were torn down, but four buildings were converted or restored; the entire complex was not razed.

Mayor David Kapell wants the houses moved, not razed, and the state plan does not specify that the houses will be razed.

And when the spaces were put back together, if they were not razed completely, they often had new layouts and amenities that rendered them nearly unrecognizable — which is more or less the point.

"We're not razing all of the old," he said.

Officials at Virginia Tech, where a gunman killed 32 students and himself in April 2007, did not raze the building where most of the students died.

Mr. Kessler, according to a real-estate executive familiar with the transaction, plans a complete facelift for his new purchase but will not raze it.

Amid the war, "she could not have found a lovelier German island," and she feels confident that "no bombs would fall on Rome,... the English would not raze the Eternal City and the center of Christendom to the ground, neither would the Americans".

There is no rancour in Marshall's voice when he says this: rather, it is obvious that he loves art history and hopes to emulate the Old Masters, not raze them to the ground.