Sentence examples for public conflagrations from inspiring English sources

The collection's historical gaps and boundaries are also revealing because they often implicitly mark periods of decline, which, we learn elsewhere, often meant public conflagrations of copies of these very books or even exterminations of the communities themselves.

"We both know that this public conflagration wasn't good for anybody," Katz said after he and Lenfest emerged as the co-owners.

Disagreements as to magnitude need not always be a fast-track to a public media conflagration.

I don't think that it is for me to dwell much on the Dome, a conflagration of public money on a truly epic scale.

That is a lonely public dissent, though; few others are keeping cameras away from potential conflagrations.

Environmental groups typically protest forestry on public lands, leaving in place timber that becomes easy tinder for a conflagration.

But the conflagration that ripped through Newark in 1967 remains especially fresh in public memory, perhaps because most people had never heard of the city until they watched it burning on the evening news.

Now we're being told in passing, as if it were "old news" that "everyone knows," that the policy that the corporate media, including the Times, so successfully rammed down the public's throat in 2002 and 2003 ended up unleashing a wider sectarian conflagration.

Another source of public unease is a sense that the military strikes could provoke an unforeseen regional conflagration, requiring a larger and more perilous intervention.

Scholem's rebuttal ignited an intellectual conflagration that tore beyond the boundaries of their private exchange into a ferocious public quarrel.

The conflagrations continue, while we wait.