Sentence examples for on the conflagration from inspiring English sources

In these almost ungovernable circumstances, to remove non-pork options from school menus is a blind little gesture, narrowly political, insular and unhelpful, like Nero throwing a lanternful of oil on the conflagration in Rome.

But I look on the conflagration of our flag as more juvenile and sad than an attack on my patriotic heart and soul.

By his own account, Mr. McVeigh took revenge for Waco on the second anniversary of the conflagration.

If President Romney acceded to Netanyahu's outrageous demand for clear red lines on Iran, this global confrontation would be a tiny foretaste of the conflagration to come.

During all their times together on opposite ends of the conflagrations, they'd been watching each other intently, and now they knew what it would take to mesh their needs successfully.

The trail from that scorched earth policy to the conflagration to come, whenever Scotland next votes on independence, is easily traced.

Another mentions two youth from different communities on two separate bikes entering into a confrontation which led to the conflagration.

The British astronomer Stanford Thayer oversees the project, believing that an advanced civilization on Mars will see the conflagration and a dialogue between the planets will begin.

This was adequate for day fighting, when enemy bombers could be seen miles away, but at night the pilots had to get within a few hundred yards before spotting a bomber's silhouette against the sky or against the conflagration on the ground.

A fire broke out on 5 April 1978 and the conflagration left just a roofless shell.

With all the media attention to sectarian violence in Iraq, the favorite motif of coverage is the suicide bombing that underscores the conflagration as Iraqi-on-Iraqi violence.