Sentence examples for started to raze from inspiring English sources

Then they started to raze the houses".

The city has recently started to raze many of its condemned buildings, with the goal of creating a large park and moving many of the slum's residences into drug treatment centers.

The project's developer, Forest City Ratner, said it had razed 20 buildings and started to build temporary yards for the Long Island Rail Road.

When the coastal cities started to fall into chaos after the events of Next Wednesday, he was able to organise these hybrid military biker gangs who, when the cities were razed, migrated like locusts into the centre of the continent.

Dominic Cristini, who claims sole ownership of the Packard Plant through his company BioResource, has started the $6 million process to raze the 3.5 million square-foot building on East Grand Blvd. in Detroit.

Up to this point, the anxiety over the pace and planning of student blocks on brownfield sites had been quietly simmering: now that an existing building full of the arty types who made Ouseburn a cool place is being razed, it's starting to boil.

Developers are starting to buy up the distressed properties and raze them for redevelopment.

As part of Lincoln Center's $1.2 billion redevelopment plan, the performing arts center is considering whether to renovate Avery Fisher Hall substantially or to raze it and start from scratch.

In the debate on bank reform he seems to want to raze the banks and start from scratch.Soon Sir Mervyn will have the power to do more than merely tell them off.

As the government razes the city's small businesses, the new Russia is starting to look more like the old one.

Media companies may have to raze the once-sacred barrier between content and commerce and start selling things on-line.