Decades before providing Assad cover for using chemical weapons and razing large portions of Aleppo, Putin oversaw a scorched earth campaign in Chechnya, razing the capital city Grozny to the ground.
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They have filmed themselves razing ancient temples, churches and mosques.
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The policy soon evolved to razing churches to the ground.
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That year, officials were razing most of the old town.
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The army massacred entire villages, razing buildings and destroying livestock.
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All three deny any role in the razing of the mosque.
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Similarly, the title of Vargas' latest work—"Consciousness Razing"—is cleverly punny.
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He said Amtrak should not stop short of razing the entire building.
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In Freelancer, you're never waltzing into a pirate base and razing the place.
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Homeowners have started razing ruins in order to rebuild, helped by government subsidies.
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Not all geologists are as dismayed as Dr. Strayer by the curb's razing.
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Apparently still angry about the razing of the Voorhis, they refused, he said.
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It last erupted in 1963, killing more than 1,000 people and razing several villages.
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Today's US cities are dominated by highways there were built by razing residential neighborhoods.
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The government and army reject the accusations, blaming the "violent attackers" for razing houses.
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The neighborhood was earmarked for razing in order to build the Lower Manhattan Expressway.
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Nearly 10,000 fiery infernos are raging across the Amazon, razing tropical vegetation and trees.
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The army has been razing Rohingya villages, stealing, raping and killing as it does so.
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A technological marvel, it welcomed weary travelers into midtown Manhattan until its merciless 21 razing.
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According to court filings, Mr. Nesimi spent the week after the murder razing his apartment.
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A 6.9-magnitude earthquake struck the tourist haven, razing buildings, shattering roads and cutting off electricity.
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The 1971 razing of Les Halles in Paris is still regarded by many as a tragedy.
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One could compare it to bringing a rooftop sniper to justice by razing an entire city block.
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To them, it is a place scarred by slums and blight, remediable only through razing and modernization.
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The wildfires razing the northernmost parts of Russia and Greenland are big enough to see from space.
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Actually, razing this overly-hip buzzword palace would add the kind of charm this joint desperately needs.
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But razing the body's deliberative culture for partisan gain serves no one well, whichever side does it.
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In Calais, France, the refugees expect bulldozers to descend any minute, razing whole swaths of their camp.
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"It's like razing the house you live in — it's a terrible thing," she said of the decision.
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Nonetheless the razing of his house and shop, both in same week last month, came as a shock.
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I spent the rest of the mid-game developing my military and razing Spain's cities to the ground.
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Since the razing of the Otodo Gbame slum, many of the homeless have demonstrated outside the state governor's office.
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It was witnessing the erasure and razing of my religion's culture, history and narrative by the House of Saud.
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In Missouri and Kansas, a series of tornadoes touched down, razing dozens of homes and knocking out power to thousands.
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The fire had burned for 74 days, destroying 312 homes and razing nearly 500,000 hectares (1.2 million acres) of land.
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In November 2018, the Camp fire tore through Butte County, California, razing the town of Paradise and killing 85 people.
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Some officials in India have tried to fix their slums by simply razing them, reasoning that the constructions are illegal.
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And it's harder still to make the slow degradation of oceans, or the gradual razing of forests, seem like news.
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There has been talk — so much talk — of revamping the hall yet again, or razing the building and starting over.
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The obvious danger, of course, is that Trump is not just razing the standards of civil language, but of civility itself.
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During my last trip, while the wildfire was razing Fort McMurray, I traveled along Lakewood Drive, my barometer for Yarnell's recovery.
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She said the historical re-creation, more expensive than razing the structure and building anew, was the result of such negotiations.
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Fires have raged for weeks across Rakhine State, home to roughly a million Rohingya Muslims, razing entire villages to the ground.
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Kim Jong Un's father began building the Punggye-ri site in the early 2000s, razing several small villages in the process.
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Because of the scarcity of land on Hong Kong Island, new inventory will be created by razing old buildings for redevelopment.
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After the city-razing nightmare Daenerys wrought upon Weteros' capital, it's unlikely Jon will ever go back to following her commands again.
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Video circulating online shows prisoners rioting against guards and even razing tents in an effort to sow confusion, distract, and get away.
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Over the past year, Donald Trump has run with the intention of razing that party and upending all of those Newtonian rules.
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In August 2017, Myanmar initiated a round of ethnic slaughter, mass gang rape and the burning and razing of hundreds of villages.
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Through a combination of razing some crumbling structures and renovating others, the company hopes to eventually remake its entire 130-acre property.
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When a fire swept through Kuwinda in late March, razing hundreds of homes, the charred earth and buckled metal only heightened the contrast.
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In 1963, pyroclastic flows of lava and rocks poured out of the volcano, killing more than 1,000 people and razing dozens of villages.
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And "selling timber" doesn't have to mean an ugly clear-cut down the side of the mountain, or razing the backyard to stumps.
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Razing architectural gems, they erect mediocre apartment towers that contribute to traffic congestion and the isolation of the middle class behind high walls.
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The administration has considered razing tent encampments and sheltering people on federal property, though the details of the forthcoming plan remain unclear. Gov.
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In Varanasi, the focus is on razing a rambling old quarter to provide vistas for visiting VIPs, rather than on cleaning up the river.
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What he hasn't shown is that he can replace the foundations he's razing with anything better, or even, in most instances, anything at all.
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For his grand finale, Bondarchuk recreated the burning of Moscow by razing a vast swath of land in a village just outside the city.
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A little over 153 years ago, on April 26, 1937, German and Italian warplanes bombed the Basque town of Guernica, razing much of it.
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The synapse-razing images embedded in this post are barely a fraction of a percent of a snapshot of a sample of what's out there.
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In 1992, Advani, a former home minister and chief of the BJP, led Hindus on a pilgrimage that ended with the razing of the mosque.
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Governments, discovering that a coveted "World Heritage" designation could boost tourism, began razing surrounding areas and displacing local populations, in order to accommodate bigger crowds.
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In the past couple of weeks, thousands of fiery infernos have sparked across the Amazon rainforest, razing tropical vegetation, trees, and the fauna they house.
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In addition to razing crooked medieval streets to build grand boulevards and public gardens, Haussmann oversaw the installation of approximately 20,000 gaslights throughout the city.
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Hesse's equally indefinable art, on the other hand, was one of negation and refusal, of razing art to its foundations and starting over from scratch.
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Two hours later, all residents had left, and police did a final round of checking each shack in preparation for the razing of the camp.
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On Friday, Ana Lemus-Paiz, 236, a recent Columbine graduate, said most students she had spoken with were against the idea of razing the school.
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The most egregious example of such destruction was the razing in September 2016 of Ilojo Bar, a 162-year-old house built by a returning slave.
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As of Friday night, it was just 5% contained, as it continued to rage in gusty winds across dry landscapes, practically razing the town of Paradise.
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The quake struck when most residents were asleep, razing homes and buckling roads in a cluster of communities some 140 km (85 miles) east of Rome.
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This idea has also occasionally surfaced over the years as a means of bringing light and air underground that's less drastic than razing the whole Garden.
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United Nations cultural experts slammed Riyadh last week over the razing of the town's old quarter, saying the work erased cultural heritage and violated human rights.
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He called for the creation of a new glass-walled entrance, the razing of a 5,600-seat theater under Madison Square Garden, and brand new retail.
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Rao's failure to stop Hindu zealots from razing the medieval Babri mosque after a political rally in 1992 has long been a stain on his memory.
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Part of the focus on Myanmar's actions has been its practice of razing whole Rohingya villages and leveling the landscape, in essence trying to erase history.
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From 2004 to 2012, the country created new conservation areas, increased monitoring and took away government credits from rural producers who were caught razing protected areas.
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From 2004 to 2012, the country created new conservation areas, increased monitoring and took away government credits from rural producers who were caught razing protected areas.
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The town was badly hit by bushfires that have swept across the country's southeast in recent months, killing 29 people, razing farmland and leaving thousands homeless.
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Widening streets, refurbishing houses and improving local transport links, libraries and child care would do much more for deprived areas than simply razing them to the ground.
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The global population is expected to soar past 9 billion, and we'll need to figure out how to feed everyone without razing too many forests for cropland.
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Like the majority of good coaches, Fisher may be a better architect than maintainer, far more adept at razing and rebuilding than puttering around and making repairs.
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Eventually, he plans to present a book of 60 portraits to the Shenzhen Complaints Office, in the hope that officials will change their minds about razing Baishizhou.
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The rebuilding plans include replacing the central terminal, known as Terminal B, by razing a nearby parking garage and erecting a new central terminal in its place.
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Australia is battling its worst bushfire season on record, with blazes burning since September, killing 29 people and razing bushland across an area the size of Bulgaria.
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Australia is battling its worst bushfire season on record, with blazes burning since September killing 29 people and razing bushland across an area the size of Bulgaria.
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Razing forests to graze cattle—an area larger than South America has been cleared in the past quarter century—turns a carbon sink into a carbon spigot.
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Kalin cited Amnesty International in pointing out that the PYD/YPG has committed war crimes by razing villages and forcibly removing local communities from their native lands.
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The Washington Post reported last week that the Trump administration is considering repurposing government facilities to house homeless people in Los Angeles or razing existing tent camps.
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The first explosive fire of the season roared across Northern California on Monday, scorching thousands of acres, razing several homes and forcing hundreds of residents to flee.
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The reports' 145 expert authors urged governments to use money saved by cutting subsidies for habitat-razing industrial farming to incentivise agricultural techniques that could regenerate local ecosystems.
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In areas retaken from Islamic State south of Mosul, locals have purged traces of their presence, razing or blowing up militants' homes and even digging up their graves.
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Which is, come to think of it, a very modernist idea in itself: an overturning of values, the razing of the ground in order to build something new.
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Clashes erupted between the police and migrants on the first day of the razing, which many did not expect to unfold so swiftly and forcibly after the ruling.
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The reports' 145 expert authors urged governments to use money saved by cutting subsidies for habitat-razing industrial farming to incentivize agricultural techniques that could regenerate local ecosystems.
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Between the departure of the final patients in the 1970s and the razing of the buildings in 1993, the site was a popular destination for the ghoulishly curious.
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The city proposed razing Broadmoor, a majority black, working-class neighborhood that had been inundated by eight to 10 feet of water, and replacing it with a park.
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But that's what makes Cyber Monday such a splendid opportunity for razing your inbox: They're all there in one place, stacked atop one another like desperate Jenga blocks.
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The genius of Haussmann's widescreen remodeling of Paris was that his sewers lowered the likelihood of disease while razing neighborhoods with narrow, winding streets lowered the likelihood of revolution.
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Republicans lawmakers, some of whom have been gleeful about razing Obama's presidential legacy, now fear a backlash from their conservative political base that could affect the 2018 congressional elections.
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The military spokesman said the razing of houses along Egypt's border with Gaza was based on a cabinet decision issued in 2015 and that those affected had been compensated.
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Probably most important of all, they are the great ecological unifiers: by razing the earth, they create new space for the microbes, plants, and animals that will undoubtedly follow.
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As part of a push against the militants, authorities announced they were razing farmland and properties for several km (miles) around the town of al-Arish in North Sinai.
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The mechanical transformation of something truly horrible in the real world (the headshot, the ten car pileup, the razing of a city) into a gameplay mechanic renders it inert.
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The razor company Billie razors produces ads championing women with fuzzy legs and overgrown armpits, even as it sells a product for razing those features, if you so choose.
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The district proposed razing most of the school building and rebuilding it farther from the road, where unwanted visitors now pull over to take photos or traipse onto school grounds.
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Thursday's fires broke out in the eastern province of Gangwon, razing about 525 hectares (1,297 acres) and about 15 homes, seven warehouses and other structures, the government said in a statement.
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The project could entail razing the 5,600-seat theater that sits beneath Madison Square Garden, upgrading the shops in the complex, and adding new entrances on Seventh Avenue or 33rd Street.
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It's pretty messed up that, with all of that the Earth does for us we keep mucking it up by burning fossil fuels, razing the forests, and killing all the animals.
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Once in the relative safety of the border camps, the refugees have described systematic rape, murder and the razing of their homes and villages at the hands of the Myanmar military.
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The homophonic title embodies the paradoxical stakes of Consciousness Razing: the monuments, histories, institutions, and vocabularies that currently stand are untenable, yet those that are to come will be radically insufficient.
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Soon, city-razing conflagrations, like those of San Francisco in 1906 and Chicago in 1871, were a thing of the past—at least until climate change began supercharging wildfires in California.
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However, a number of smaller armed groups have emerged in recent months in reaction to a government crackdown that has included razing villages in rural anglophone Cameroon near the Nigerian border.
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This meant that nearly everything you did felt like it was tied to the narrative, whether that was explicit story missions or side activities like blowing up oil tankers or razing farms.
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The Diablo winds blew the burgeoning flames of the Camp Fire west at a ferocious clip, tearing across towns such as Concow, Magalia, and Paradise, razing homes faster than residents could flee.
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The market, built in stages from the 1850s to the 1930s, came under threat in the 1970s, when city officials proposed razing the sheds and buildings for a hotel and office complex.
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Through razing Uyghur mosques, destroying traditional Uyghur architecture, discouraging the use of Uyghur language, and incentivizing intermarriage, there is a deep concern that many parts of Uyghur life have been lost forever.
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According to Amnesty International, PYD/YPG , which has been Washington's main ally in Syria, has committed war crimes in Syria by razing villages and forcibly removing local communities from their native lands.
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Image 2003 of 2 JERUSALEM – Israeli police scuffled with activists protesting the planned demolition of a Bedouin hamlet in the West Bank on Wednesday amid international opposition to the razing of the site.
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The GSA responded to the report with a rejection of its core assertions, saying it misrepresents Murphy's testimony, fails to mention several key meetings and miscalculates the cost of razing the FBI headquarters.
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His "Museum of Transgender Hirstory & Art (MOTHA)," which houses Consciousness Razing as a project, is a semi-fictional roving institution that has exhibited at Seattle's Henry Art Gallery and Los Angeles' ONE Archive.
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In the late 1950s, Robert Moses initiated the razing of many city blocks of tenement homes and businesses on the West Side to make way for a new world-class performing arts complex.
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The contractor for the job of razing the Bonwit Teller building, William Kaszycki, of Kaszycki and Sons Contractors, ultimately served time in a New Jersey prison for employing illegal immigrants on another project.
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Republicans argued that changing the rules to push through the nomination was their only option, accusing Democrats of razing Senate norms with the first-ever successful partisan filibuster of a Supreme Court nominee.
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There is a long history in popular culture of characters unraveling with gusto: Sissy Spacek in "Carrie"; John Wick, to some degree; Daenerys's razing the entirety of Kings Landing, just because she could.
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The country is going through its worst bushfire season on record, with fires burning since September taking 28 lives, destroying more than 2,500 homes and razing forests and farmland the size of Bulgaria.
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Razing villages to make room for expensive high-rise apartments will temporarily stop migrants from using coal, of course, but they end up just moving to other peripheral villages, where they use more coal.
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Part of the problem is the regime's blunt force approach — indiscriminate bombing as well as the razing of entire villages and some extrajudicial killings — is ill suited to the requirements of effective counterterrorism operations.
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"I don't know if she could understand me," said Carli Lloyd, who scored the final goal for the Americans in a 13-0 razing of Thailand in their opening match of this World Cup.
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But for other supporters, the flames are part of the attraction: Trump's MAGA agenda is, to them, about razing the "establishment" to the ground and putting him and his supporters in places of power.
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Australia has been battling its worst bushfire season on record, with fires burning for months killing 29 people, and destroying more than 2,500 homes while razing bushland across an area the size of Bulgaria.
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Though the expansion involved razing its former neighbor—a handsome building by Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, home to the American Folk Art Museum—this is an architecture of subtle intervention, not grand gesture.
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And for more than 30 years, the nearly century-old bridge has been crumbling, even as residents rallied endlessly to save their de facto Main Street and as city agencies mulled razing the structure.
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Albert Cobo, mayor for much of the 2000s, pursued the building of motorways by razing black neighbourhoods, sowing the seeds for the race riots in 23 which marked, for many, the beginning of Detroit's decline.
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Then, from a moral perspective, Gormöth the Destroyer is guilty of murder, razing cities with his flaming mouth, and attempting to blanket the planet in darkness, so that he may rule as an Evil Overlord.
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Twitter users have gathered GIFs of some more bombastic moments of the game, from soldiers razing a field with blowtorches on horseback to a player leaping into an aircraft in flight by grabbing onto it.
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The ministry said on May 16 a soldier was killed and five others were wounded when armed men fired a rocket-propelled grenade at their patrol in Awamiya after authorities began razing the old town.
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That was a big surprise to many, given the looting, raping and razing of villages by rival Christian and Muslim armed groups that has forced almost a million people to flee their homes since 220.
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In the northern part of the city, the Philadelphia Housing Authority is razing part of the Norman Blumberg Apartments in the Sharswood neighborhood, which has had especially high rates of poverty, crime and urban blight.
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MELBOURNE, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Thunderstorms and heavy rain swept across parts of Australia's east coast on Thursday, bringing hope that some of the fierce bushfires razing the country will be extinguished - or at least slowed.
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The remaking of Fifth Avenue in this corridor, and the attendant razing of venerable old buildings to make way for the new, recalls a similarly dramatic transformation of the area in the late 19th century.
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Although the image of a kangaroo cooling off inside a swimming pool may seem comical, it is also a stark reminder of the intensifying bushfires currently razing through Australia&aposs nature reserves and residential areas.
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Working with Richard Haviland Smythe, an architect, Mr. Melville rearranged vintage buildings, razing some and adding others, to produce a crescent of shops with shingles, parking spaces, a village green and views to the harbor.
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What is one of Michael Garlington's monumental, lavish chapels, laden with baroque details, macabre, gothic photography, toys, and weird, old-fashioned tchotchkes, without the spectacular, sometimes painful razing of it at the end of the week?
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That's changed in recent years, as the blanket phrase of "public use" has been used in eminent domain cases to include razing blighted urban areas or if the land could be seen as encouraging economic development.
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In 2015, Hudson's City Council voted to demolish almost all of the shacks, but before the razing began, the New York State Historic Preservation Office declared the site eligible for the National Register of Historic Places.
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A construction flurry in the 1950s led to the razing of some of the district's oldest homes, and today, nearly every block features a site that is under renovation and in the process of being flipped.
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Lee, who was banned from Myanmar last year after Yangon claimed a previous report by her was biased and unfair, said she had seen evidence that Myanmar's military was continuing to target Rohingya, razing their villages.
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When engineers completed I-70's north Denver segment in 1964, they laid a ribbon of concrete through the heart of the community, razing a portion of its main street and demolishing at least 30 houses.
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Tica, Mozambique (CNN)It has been nearly two weeks since Tropical Cyclone Idai ripped through Mozambique, razing buildings and submerging entire towns and villages -- but even now the human toll is yet to be fully understood.
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Several years ago, the local government began razing large tracts of housing in the city, in what many see as an ongoing effort to drive out the often frugal snowbirds by denying them places to rent.
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Puzzlingly, not even the 9/11 attacks, or any subsequent terrorist outrages, have slowed down this wave of cinematic demolition, although in "Resurgence", the city-razing scenes don't seem as insensitive as the ones in "Independence Day".
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Australia is experiencing one of its worst bushfire seasons on record, with fires burning since September and claiming the lives of 28 people, destroying more than 2,500 homes and razing forests and farmland the size of Bulgaria.
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The tremor, officially recorded in Italy at a modest strength of 4.0, toppled buildings, killed two people and injured dozens in a district where seven years ago residents rioted to prevent bulldozers from razing illegally built homes.
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The survey, which was backed by the British government, found that civilians experienced about two conflict-related incidents per week in the prior year, some causing injury or death and others razing homes, schools, clinics and mosques.
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He aims to achieve universal coverage through the introduction of a public option and more subsidies for private insurance, building off the existing system instead of razing it to the ground as a single-payer plan would.
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Australia has been fighting wildfires across the country's east coast for weeks, with blazes killing eight people - including two firefighters overnight - destroying more than 700 homes and razing nearly 3 million acres (1.2 million hectares) of bushland.
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Palestinians fear that the razing of buildings near what Israel describes as a security barrier against Palestinian attacks will set a precedent for other towns along its route, which snakes through the West Bank for hundreds of kilometers.
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Fires have killed 25 people this summer season and torn through more than 8.6 million hectares (21.3 million acres) of land, an area nearly the size of Austria, razing thousands of buildings and cutting off power and communications.
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Australia has been battling wildfires across large swathes of its east coast for weeks, with the blazes razing more than 5.25 million hectares (13 million acres) of land along with destroying almost 1,500 houses in one state alone.
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Bruno Serralongue's photos of Calais after the 2002 closure of the Red Cross camp there show the tarp and scrap shelters built by refugees ("Abris #3, #5, #7," 2006–08), like those newly arising after March's camp razing.
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In a study published last week in the North Korea-focused 38 North website, U.S. analyst Joseph S. Bermudez Jr. said recent commercial satellite images showed the North was razing a test facility near the northwest city of Kusong.
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The Facebook billionaire and reported pesky neighbor appears to be turning his Palo Alto estate into a fully-formed compound by razing four neighboring homes and building four smaller structures—including one that could be a damn doomsday bunker.
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Monday's attack was the second in two weeks targeting security forces deployed to guard workers busy razing the old part of the town, known as al-Musawara, which authorities say has been used by armed fugitives to escape arrest.
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The United States and South Korea would offer technical and material support on all three sides of the deal: destruction of the nuclear and missile facilities; closing and razing of the camps; civilian humanitarian aid, reconstruction and economic development.
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This has led to numerous bloody flare-ups between Buddhists and Muslims in Rakhine state, from communal riots in 2012 to the recent atrocities, which include the razing of villages and the mass exodus of Rohingya across the border.
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These values stand in stark contrast to the growing authoritarianism of the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is jailing tens of thousands of Turkish citizens in addition to razing entire Kurdish communities as he consolidates his dictatorial grip.
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The razing of the 16th century Babri mosque by Hindu mobs in 1992 led to one officially secular India's deadliest bouts of communal riots, in which at least 2,000 people, most of them Muslim, were killed across the country.
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While the inaction may have prevented the very tall construction seen along the Brooklyn waterfront, it has also allowed builders to maximize the existing development rights along several residential blocks by razing old homes and building several stories higher.
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Even Kurdish families were ordered out of the village, Abdi Koy, as part of a campaign of deliberate displacement of the population and the razing of villages by the Kurdish militia in 2015, according to a report by Amnesty International.
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Lagos state government said the razing was a result of clashes between the Egun and Yorubas, the major ethnic groups in the community, while police denied destroying homes and said they had arrested several people for setting fire to them.
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Just as President Trump was razing the State Department to the ground, another scandal was unfolding: Presidential aide John McEntee was escorted from the White House over security issues and was revealed to be the subject of a federal investigation.
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The report documented many complaints about the treatment of migrants that have arisen since the razing of "the Jungle," an area in Calais where 6,000 to 10,000 migrants, many from Africa, Afghanistan and elsewhere, were living in often squalid surroundings.
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"In the universe of illegal activities in Amazonia, there's deforestation, gold prospecting, bush meat hunting, clandestine logging and animal smuggling," said Mr. Cabral, 48, who was shot in the shoulder in 2015 while pursuing gunmen who were razing tracts of forest.
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The Americans were a part of a multi-national contingency that has been helping Australia to combat the devastating bushfires that have in three months scorched a land area about one-third the size of Germany, razing thousands of homes.
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SEOUL, South Korea – President Donald Trump&aposs comments that North Korea is destroying a major missile engine testing site seems to support a recent U.S. study that the country was razing a facility crucial to its development of mid-range solid-fuel missiles.
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When Gruzen Samton's design was presented to the commission, the objections weren't to the idea of razing the 1937 building — its facade had been altered long ago — but to the height and industrial look of the design put forth to take its place.
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The proposed monuments in Consciousness Razing are additions to Vargas' ongoing queer history series, dubbed Trans Hirstory in 99 Objects—a name that riffs on attempts by the Smithsonian and the British Museum to present a definitive history by compiling one hundred artifacts.
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The government is seeking to drastically increase the amount of energy it produces, but local's fear that power plant projects could lead to potentially thousands of evictions and the razing of schools and religious sites in the densely packed South Asian nation.
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Since 2013, critics have publicly debated the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's plans for a $600 million campus redesign by Peter Zumthor that requires razing three deteriorating 1965 buildings designed by William Pereira and a 1986 addition by Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates.
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"These brazen acts of razing entire villages, deliberately destroying civilian homes and forcibly displacing their inhabitants with no imperative military grounds, should be investigated as possible war crimes," said Osai Ojigho, director for Amnesty International Nigeria, in Friday's statement detailing the group's investigation.
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Editorial Nine months after the razing of a squalid migrant camp in Calais, France, known as "the Jungle," where between 6,000 and 10,000 people were living, local authorities and President Emmanuel Macron's government are determined to prevent a new camp from springing up.
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Calçoene Journal CALÇOENE, Brazil — As the foreman for a cattle ranch in the far reaches of the Brazilian Amazon, Lailson Camelo da Silva was razing trees to convert rain forest into pasture when he stumbled across a bizarre arrangement of towering granite blocks.
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Currently, to name just a couple of examples, Breuer's American Press Institute in Virginia is slated for razing to make way for condos, while a blocky former police headquarters in Winnipeg had a local council recently vote in favor of its destruction.
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Then in May of last year, as the mosque took shape, Mr. Erdogan ordered the razing of the Ataturk Cultural Center, an acclaimed Modernist building and one of the city's favorite institutions, where generations of Turks attended concerts, operas and theater productions.
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel said on Sunday it would put on hold for "a number of weeks" its threatened razing of a Bedouin village in the occupied West Bank amid international calls to drop the plan, saying it would try to negotiate an evacuation.
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The Palestinians say razing Khan al-Ahmar's tents and tin shacks is part of an Israeli plan to create an arc of Jewish settlements that could effectively cut off East Jerusalem from the West Bank, areas occupied by Israel since a 1967 war.
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Although Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides's lyrics are fairly minimal — looped catchphrases, repeated in minor, if surreal, variations, warped through perplexingly distorted vocal filters — the snippets that do emerge focus rather conspicuously on the general theme of razing and reconstructing a self.
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The Palestinians say razing the village's tents and tin shacks is part of an Israeli plan to create an arc of Jewish settlements that would effectively cut off East Jerusalem from the West Bank, areas captured by Israel in a 1967 war.
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Palestinians say razing the Bedouin village's tents and tin and wood shacks is part of an Israeli plan to create an arc of Jewish settlements that would effectively cut off East Jerusalem from the West Bank, areas captured by Israel in a 1967 war.
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The Palestinian government, in a statement, said the razing of Khan al-Ahmar was part of an Israeli plan to create an arc of Jewish settlements that would effectively cut off East Jerusalem from the West Bank, areas captured in the 1967 Middle East war.
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The razing in 1967 of the old Metropolitan Opera House at Broadway and 39th Street, whose golden core was masked by a hideous industrial yellow-brick facade, prompted the city to expand the jurisdiction of the fledgling Landmarks Preservation Commission to include building interiors.
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But it's now clear that first lady Melania Trump has no intention of razing the plot of land, which produces vegetables, herbs and fruits for use in the White House kitchen as well for local food banks that receive the bounty several times a year.
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SEOUL, South Korea — Satellite imagery indicates that North Korea is razing some facilities used for testing one of its most dangerous missiles after its leader, Kim Jong-un, announced a moratorium on nuclear and long-range missile tests, according to an analysis released this week.
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Alan Fleisher, the executive vice president of a commercial moving and storage company, lives in a 6,500-square-foot Mediterranean-style home on East 66th Street that he built after buying the property for $563 million in 2004 and razing the existing 1970s ranch house.
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Ms. Brown, 16, and her family had only recently moved to Mallacoota when, on New Year's Eve, fire that turned the sky "red one minute" and "black the next" tore through the town, razing their new home (and making Ms. Brown's asthma even worse).
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In 2015, the Syrian Kurds were forcibly removing people from their homes by "deliberately demolishing civilian homes, in some cases razing and burning entire villages," Amnesty International's Lama Fakih said in a report based on information the rights group had gathered on a fact-finding mission.
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Under the original plan, a trench was to run through the middle of Brooklyn Heights, which would have required razing hundreds of historic homes and divided the neighborhood, said Peter Bray, executive director of the Brooklyn Heights Association, a nonprofit that rallied opposition to the plan.
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In a startlingly dramatic appeal to both sides in Syria's brutal civil war, the United Nations' special envoy for Syria offered to personally escort up to 2900,000 al-Qaeda-linked fighters out of Aleppo to prevent Russian and Syrian forces from razing the city to the ground.
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Kenya is battling its worst desert locust outbreak in 70 years, and the infestation has spread through much of the eastern part of the continent and the Horn of Africa, razing pasture and croplands in Somalia and Ethiopia and sweeping into South Sudan, Djibouti, Uganda and Tanzania.
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But the razing of medieval shrines in Timbuktu by Malian jihadists in 2012 and then the destruction by Islamic State militants in Syria of parts of the ancient city of Palmyra last year brought the danger home, said Bokova, among candidates to become UN Secretary General later this year.
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Prosecutors in The Hague said that Mr. Mahdi had led the razing of 10 shrines around Timbuktu, a town on the southern edge of the Sahara that gained prominence as an ancient trading crossroads and a vital center of Islamic learning from the 15th century to the 17th century.
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In other words, informality is an intentional mode of the state and "planning is not an antidote to informality," as Roy puts it, but a code to camouflage the profit-driven reality of razing certain neighborhoods and converting them into commodities when the capital opportunity matures for speculation.
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The haunting beauty of the city is in part a product of a program of urban renewal in the 19th century led by Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann at the behest of Emperor Napoleon III, which included wholesale razing of old neighborhoods to create the now-beloved boulevards, parks and delicate facades.
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After a summer of unprecedented high temperatures and a fall "rainy season" with less than half the usual precipitation, the northern firestorm turned a city called Paradise into an inferno within an hour, razing more than ten thousand buildings and killing at least sixty-three people; more than six hundred others are missing.
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But if you're feeling bad about shoveling animal-killing foods down your gullet, there is hope: groups such as the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil are aiming to make sustainably-raised palm oil, which is harvested only from areas that have previously been cleared without razing any new forests, the industry norm.
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Even the history of the Dalai Lama's own sect of Tibetan Buddhism includes events like the razing of rival monasteries, and recent decades have seen a controversy centering on a wrathful protector deity believed by some of the Dalai Lama's fellow religionists to heap destruction on the false teachers of rival sects.
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After including transportation, utilities, food sources (agricultural), commodities, and other tourism needs met between 2009 and 2013, Malik and her team found that over 70 percent of emissions came from the combustion of fuels (to power hotels and fuel jet engines) and "land-use changes," like razing carbon dioxide-eating forests for pasture land.
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One alternative would be a package of immediate but incomplete steps (a ban on missile and weapons testing and ICBM deployments, razing key nuclear facilities, a full declaration of nuclear assets and the symbolic surrender of some amount of fissile material) and a formal pledge of full denuclearization within a longer, but reasonable, time frame.
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" Sarah Brooks of International Service for Human Rights told Reuters: "We should be clear that what is happening in Xinjiang is the wholesale destruction of a minority people and a culture, from the razing of religious sites to the separation of families, incentives for intermarriage, and the imprisonment of more than 350 academics and intellectuals.
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The team of the Chetrit Group, Clipper Equity and the Read Property Group are creating a sort of condo village on the 1.4-acre Cabrini property, which extends from East 19th to East 20th Street, midway between Second and Third Avenues, by razing some of the original buildings, trimming the size of some others and adding a new building.
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Similarly, in the name of Sinicizing religion, Mr. Xi's party-state is razing mosques and churches and has demolished huge swaths of the Tibetan Buddhist monastic centers of Larung Gar and Yachen Gar, expelling monks and nuns and interning some of them in so-called re-education camps like those in which it now holds some one million Uighurs.
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Ten years ago, he started a blog called Jeremiah's Vanishing New York that sought to record and investigate the closing of nearly every bar, luncheonette, florist, gas station, strip joint, bakery, knish place and so on that in the individual instance, and dramatically so in the amalgam, represents the razing of a foundational authenticity — the flattening of what, for so long, represented the city's character.
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Politics is perception Some US politicians have praised Vladimir Putin and Eurasian strongmen leaders for their counterterrorism savvy, which has taken the form of the carpet bombing and razing of Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, in the 1990s; disastrous military raids on terror-besieged theaters and schoolhouses, resulting in the death of hundreds of civilian hostages; and gross human rights abuses visited on a daily basis in the North Caucasus.
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Razing the tawdry, unsafe and unhealthy camp in Calais was overdue and necessary, and the thousands of people — including hundreds of unaccompanied youths — who had somehow reached the entrance to the Channel Tunnel in the largely false hope of reaching Britain, the promised land for so many refugees, will now have a chance at least to live in a degree of safety while they try to get permission to stay in France.
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Related: Caught Between the Islamic State and Erdogan: Turkey's Most Important Opposition Politician Talks to VICE News Amnesty has also accused Kurdish peshmerga forces in northern Iraq of razing thousands of homes in Arab communities in revenge for their perceived support of IS. "The forced displacement of civilians and the deliberate destruction of homes and property without military justification, may amount to war crimes," said Donatella Rovera, Amnesty International's senior crisis response advisor, who carried out the field research in northern Iraq.
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When western observers obsess over the fate of antiquities in Palmyra to the exclusion of concern for the people living nearby, when headline writers produce titles like "Why it's all right to be more horrified by the razing of Palmyra than mass murder," and pundits call for military intervention solely to protect ancient sites, they are engaged in a neo-colonial discourse which places the greatest value on things that educated people in developed countries care about the most, namely exotic ancient artifacts and adorable wildlife, while overlooking the very real needs of the people who come into regular contact with these things and have much more directly at stake.
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