Sentences with phrase «nearly incinerated»

The original «Ring hosted the German Grand Prix from 1927 until 1976, when reigning world champion Niki Lauda was nearly incinerated there.

Having willfully turned the island into a Soviet satellite (and well before America's ill - advised Bay of Pigs invasion), Castro welcomed the shipment of Soviet nuclear missiles there, provoking a crisis that nearly incinerated the world.

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Nearly half of the cash was incinerated during the April — June quarterly period this year.

Coffee grounds into fertilizer Starbucks Hong Kong produces nearly 5,000 tons of used coffee grounds and unconsumed bakery waste each year, which is currently incinerated, composted or dumped in landfills.

However, fire incinerated five telescopes and a critical instrument workshop, which housed a nearly finished spectrograph for the 8.1 - meter Gemini North telescope at Mauna Kea, Hawaii.

Those 22 dives will continue on a weekly basis through the summer, and on September 15, the spacecraft — which is nearly out of fuel — will eventually succumb to Saturn's gravity and enter the planet's atmosphere, where it will likely be incinerated as it hurtles towards the surface.

Her dog, over the family's objections, was killed and incinerated nearly immediately upon the order of government officials.

The study found that in 2015, of the nearly seven billion tonnes of plastic waste generated, only 9 % was recycled, 12 % incinerated, and 79 % accumulated in landfills or the environment.