Sentence examples for ordered to be burned from inspiring English sources

"All of Olivi's books were ordered to be burned after his death.

A fake Marc Chagall painting, owned by a Leeds businessman who had bought it for £100,000 in 1992, was ordered to be burned last month and an Istanbul art gallery closed down its Joan Miró exhibition last year after directors of the Spanish surrealist painter's estate said some of the works were forgeries.

He evacuated the city and then ordered it to be burned.

Human rights groups have said the militia leader, Ali Kushayb— also known as Ali Muhammad Ali and-al-Rahman and the "colonel of colonels" — led attacks on civilians and ordered villages to be burned to the ground and the women in them raped.

On November 11, 1864, in preparation of the Union Army's march to Savannah, Sherman ordered Atlanta to be burned to the ground, sparing only the city's churches and hospitals.

The siege had lasted more than a month, and because of the defensive strength of the city, Alvarado ordered it to be burned and moved the inhabitants to the new colonial village of Mixco.

The poet Philip Larkin, about whom Bennett made a TV programme, ordered his journals to be burned after his death.

He emailed Dexter to free the thousands of smugglers he had kept hostage on his secret island, disbanded his private army and ordered the cocaine to be burned.

In Paris, as in Geneva, they ordered the book to be burned and the author arrested; all the Maréchal de Luxembourg could do was to provide a carriage for Rousseau to escape from France.

The document enumerated Luther's errors along the lines of Exsurge Domine, declared Luther and his followers (some of whom were identified by name) to be political outlaws, and ordered his writings to be burned.

The problem is compounded by the fact that Leopold ordered his archives to be burned just before control of Congo was wrested from him and transferred to the Belgian state after an international outcry in 1908 over his abuses.