Sentence examples for razing it for from inspiring English sources

Today, after months of hearing a growing clamor from the Flamingo's supporters, Mayor Glenn D. Cunningham announced that he would spare the wrecking ball and allow the 24-hour diner to stay where it has spent the last 35 years, rather than razing it for a street widening.

He intended to raze it for apartments.

When the colonie was finally put up for sale, every offer except one was for razing it and developing a résidence de vacances (translation: nasty subdivision).

A state-funded corporation is seeking to raze it to make way for the land-hungry port of Antwerp.

And they came". Before Sue and Nancy Eynon Lark bought it, this 1880 Silver Spring farmhouse was a target of developers who had wanted to raze it to make way for five large modern houses.The refurbished home has five private suites for residents, as well as community areas.

This is where the old Terminal B garage stood before construction crews razed it to clear the way for Terminal C — the main piece of John Wayne Airport's $543-million 543-million and renovatimprovement — which opened in mid-November.

Somehow, it wasn't quite grand enough for him, and he razed it in 1901 to build something larger.

It took off after a landmark Hollywood sale in 1970, when MGM Studios razed its warehouses for condos and auctioned off thousands of dusty movie costumes and props.

As a serious effort to make standing forests more valuable than razing them for agriculture, it is unprecedented.

Any property within the designated area is subject to eminent domain, where the developers have the right to purchase the property for fair market value and raze it to make way for the planned development.

The form it took was the purchase of a hundred and fifty untracked acres of land near a place called Cave Creek, in the Australian state of Queensland; Greer was determined to restore the native rain forest that had been there before European settlers razed much of it for timber and dairy farming.