Sentence examples for of being razed from inspiring English sources

In contrast to Kanyon's fresh face, the Rizzo and Kamondo buildings were in ruins, and at risk of being razed, when Beyoglu AS decided to renovate them.

They told members of the City Council that "only a very small number" of the 200 or so buildings slated for demolition were at risk of being razed without notice.

The Evergreens was at risk of being razed because of a provision in the will of Martha (1865-1943), the only daughter of Susan and Austin, who lived in the house until her death.

Yet these remaining mangroves face the threat of being razed entirely to make way for a golf course as part of local economic development plans – part of a global development trend that has seen the clearance of as much as 50% of the world's mangroves over the past half a century.

Part of what's driving the increases in home values here is what agents said was a spike in renovations and what are commonly known as "knockdowns" -- homes that have been purchased with the intent of being razed so that a new, more luxurious property can be built.

But this national landmark of sorts might be in danger of being razed sometime in the next few years if no one steps up.

The plan calls for 22 of them to be razed to make way for a park, and for the other 66 to become part of a new residential and commercial tourist center.

Mrs. Emerson said she could not bear the thought of the house being razed.

Under Napoleon III's prefect, Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann, the medieval alleys of Paris were being razed to make way for grand boulevards.

Alarmed by a surge in the number of older houses being razed to make way for large new houses, more than 1,300 residents in the hamlet of Oyster Bay signed a petition this summer asking local officials to step in.

Huge tracts of the Chaco are being razed in a scramble into one of South America's most remote corners.