Sentence examples for torched after from inspiring English sources

In the city of León, university offices were torched after riot police broke up a peaceful protest.

Many records of the brothels were torched after the war and the surviving "comfort women" stayed largely silent until the early 1990s.

Days before the attack on Ansari, another man in Jharkhand was reportedly beaten and had his house torched after a cow carcass was found near his home.

The Damascus house of foreign ministry spokesman Jihad Makdissi has been torched after reports of his defection, according to the Times of Israel citing Israel Radio.

Human rights workers in Chechnya have suffered harassment and had their offices torched after they had complained about the methods used by authorities in the wake of a terror attack in Grozny earlier this month.

GlaxoSmithkline's Avandia, for diabetes, was torched after buried studies pointed to an increased risk of heart attacks.

And that doesn't count the bonus calories you continue to torch after an interval session is over.

The buses were torched soon after a police raid on drug-runners.

Here's AP: Witnesses in Marashda village in the province of Qena said several shops and cars owned by Coptic Christians were torched overnight after Muslim villagers accused a merchant in his sixties of molesting the young girl.

In "And Further Mo'," which is having its local debut at the Crossroads Theater Company through Feb. 4, after previous showings in Milan, Italy, and New Orleans, it's 1927 and word gets out that "the theater will be torched" - right after this night's performance.

Carnegie, who had an early sense of the power of photography to influence the public, hired Pinkerton security guards to put down the workers at United States Steel's Homestead Works and a photographer to record the strike, including the burning barges the strikers torched just after the invading Pinkertons debarked.