Sentence examples for soldiers razed from inspiring English sources

Gone is the three-metre electrified barbed-wire fence erected after soldiers razed the building.

Coe thickens the texture with a sub-plot involving Thomas's mother-in-law's attempt to confront the gruesome past when German soldiers razed her idyllic Belgian village.

The biggest of Myanmar's myriad insurgent groups not to have reached a truce with the SPDC, the KNU's armed wing is now fighting desperately for survival in the mountainous Thai border region around the town of Umphang.This month SPDC soldiers razed the base camp of one of its seven brigades: a newish settlement equipped with solar power, piped water, fish-holding tanks and medical facilities.

Mr Kerry spoke of American soldiers who "razed villages in a fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan".

In 1982, he fled with his wife and children into the mountains after soldiers had razed Xix twice and killed whomever they could chase down, he said, including a neighbor who was pregnant.

When the P.L.A. soldiers arrived, they razed more than four thousand houses and killed some sixteen hundred villagers in one week.

It's named after the legendary club run by the late musical activist Fela Kuti, which was razed by soldiers.

More than half the Rohingya community's 850 houses were razed over the next two days and soldiers killed at least 265 people, he claims.

The city of Schenectady, the county seat, was founded by the Dutch in 1661, razed by French and Indian soldiers in 1690, and rebuilt by English settlers soon thereafter.

There, her parents ran a farm with cows, pigs, chickens, turkeys, and fish until the property was razed in the late 1970s by soldiers fighting in the country's civil war.

Seven decades after the initial siege, on 28 August 1521, the fort was finally captured by Ottoman Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent and his 250,000 soldiers; subsequently, most of the city was razed to the ground and its entire Orthodox Christian population was deported to Istanbul, to an area that has since become known as the Belgrade forest.