Sentence examples for razed down from inspiring English sources

Councilwoman Rosie Mendez of Manhattan said that demolition should be defined as "to be razed down to the floor, so if you can see it, it's not a demolition".

There were no casualties, but the court building in Degema was "razed down and documents burnt", he is quoted by Nigeria's privately owned Daily Trust newspaper as saying.

This is not the old story of poor blacks being pushed out of neighborhoods razed down for highway construction.

Let's return again to McWhorter's unsupported argument that "this is not the old story of poor blacks being pushed out of neighborhoods razed down for highway construction".

McWhorter knows that phrases like "razed down" and "Lee growled" support his argument that the only cultural violence that's occurring is Lee's "expletive-laced" invective.

Workers will begin razing Downing soon, perhaps as early as next month.

In 2009, the British razed the run-down structure that used to house prisoners here, with its poor plumbing and its dirt yard that turned to mud in the rainy winter.

Thousands-year old trees were being cut down, meadows razed, streams polluted.

Brown's memorial, which was built on a sidewalk on Canfield Drive, by the site where the teen laid on the ground for four hours after being shot down, was razed to the ground in a fire around 6 30am Tuesday.

San Francisco authorities also tried to raze and burn down Chinese neighborhoods; it took the combined efforts of the ethnic San Francisco Chinese community, their lawyers and China's ambassador to the United States to save the community from complete destruction.

She has been praised and razed, built up and torn down; variously hailed as the most vibrant British actor of her generation and dismissed as an am-dram fake who got lucky.