1. While some residents are left with only ashes to search through others nearby are grateful their homes were saved.

2. He recalled watching ashes rising from the deck of the ship.

3. The factory has been reduced to ashes, an interior ministry spokesman said.

4. This is not the first attempt to resurrect ancient art from the ashes of war.

5. The city, the source said, will be reduced to ashes and removed from the map.