Sentence examples for torched state from inspiring English sources

In towns and cities around Gujarat, the home state of India's prime minister, Narendra Modi, police fired teargas shells and used sticks to try to control stone-throwing crowds, who have blocked roads and torched state buses.

Compaoré, who has led the west African nation for 27 years, declared a state of emergency after protesters stormed parliament and torched other state buildings.

"It is true our INEC office in Rivers state was torched.

Attahiru Jega, Nigeria's election chief, said: "It is true our INEC office in Rivers state was torched.

In September a horde of insurgents fell on the verdant villages of Kubi and Watu in Adamawa state and torched more than 500 houses.

In Imphal, India, protesters torched the Central Library of the state of Manipur.

More than 300 classrooms have been torched in the remote, arid state since 2009, according to official counts.

Wildfires torched people's homes in multiple states.

It's as if all the vegetation in the entire states of Montana, Colorado and New York combined were torched.

Foreign businesses are torched in protests, and Ethiopia is in a state of emergency.

In Syria, a police state allied to Iran where rioters have torched the Danish and Norwegian embassies, witnesses noted men with walkie-talkies directing the crowds.