Sentence examples for were to burn from inspiring English sources

Even if they were to burn Boehner at the stake, taxes on the wealthy would go up on January 1st, with or without a bipartisan agreement.

If a power station were to burn wood, say, or cornstalks, and use C.C.S. to sequester the resulting CO2, this cycle would be broken.

If it were to burn used fryer oil from a restaurant, the exhaust would smell more like French fries or fried fish, he added.

If those buildings were to burn cleaner oil, the fund's report said, the amount of airborne pollutants they release would decline by as much as 65 percent to 95 percent.

"If the goat were to burn on my shift, I'd never be able to show my face in town again," the guard told a local newspaper at the time.

The most common ways to threaten administrators who refused to collude with the criminals were to burn their cars, mail them envelopes containing bullets, or boxes with severed animal heads reminiscent of the horse's head scene in The Godfather.

However, the body's tendency is to burn muscle before burning fat.

Gendreau says the only real method of reducing CO2 from coal burning is to burn the fuel more efficiently.

What freedom there is to burn and wreck," thinks King.

One drastic approach is to burn the barn down.

One method is to burn natural uranium in a nuclear reactor to generate fissile plutonium.