Sentence examples for ordered to be evacuated from inspiring English sources

But the headquarters of Goldman Sachs, located at 200 West Street in Battery Park City, is located in Zone A, the low-lying area that the mayor has ordered to be evacuated.

All non-emergency personnel were ordered to be evacuated; however, political issues influenced National Park Service management directives and the complex was not completely closed to incoming tourists, with some visitors still arriving at Old Faithful not long before the main firestorm hit by mid afternoon.

By October, the Genoese position and the continued French advances led the British to decide that the Mediterranean fleet could no longer be supplied; they ordered it to be evacuated to Gibraltar.

Parts of Lower Manhattan were left without power, compelling Mayor Giuliani to order Battery Park City to be evacuated.

A construction crane that collapsed Monday is hanging perilously about 80 stories above West 57th Street and the police ordered buildings nearby to be evacuated.

The exact sequence of events before the collapse is still unclear but it appears local authorities had ordered the building to be evacuated after cracks appeared in walls earlier in the week.

Just minutes after she left the football tournament on Saturday, police ordered the venue to be evacuated, saying they had received a phone call warning of "possible terrorist acts".

Westmoreland then ordered Khâm Đức to be evacuated, so the 834th Air Division was told to make an all-out effort to extract all the people in Khâm Đức, both military and civilian.

On July 23, Admiral Thad Allen ordered the oil spill site to be evacuated, as Bonnie posed a safety threat to nearly 2,000 people in that area.

Then, one morning in October 2011, the man was driving to work when he heard on the news that the city council had gone to court to get an order for the apartments to be evacuated.

After the Greeks appealed to the League of Nations, the Italians were ordered to evacuate but Greece was forced to pay Italy an indemnity.