Sentence examples for Easter commemoration from inspiring English sources

On 1 April, police vehicles have come under attack from youths throwing stones and other missiles at a dissident republican Easter commemoration in Londonderry.

Although there were tensions between the younger leaders like Johnnie White and the older, traditional republicans such as Seán Keenan, both sides saw the unrest of 1968-69 as a chance to advance republican aims, and the two shared the platform at the Easter commemoration in April 1969.

But above all the Easter commemorations were characterised by maturity and inclusivity.

Earlier in the week, Kassa had performed in front of a crowd of over 1,000 during Easter commemorations in Mescal square.

Photograph of the May 18th commemoration ceremony by Max Vetrov/AFP/Getty.

Carson recalled the successful August 2013 commemoration at Palo Alto City Hall of King's "I Have a Dream" March on Washington oration.

Peter Balakian, author of "The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America's Response," said the scale of the 1975 commemoration was groundbreaking and well timed.

Eric Gordy thinks the May 31st commemoration in Prijedor has succeeded where others have not partly because of its young leaders, "who are conscious that the community has no future living in compulsory denial," he told me.

But organizers of the Friday protests have said they will continue until the May 15 commemoration of what Palestinians call the Nakba, or catastrophe, marking the flight and expulsion of an estimated 700,000 Palestinians seven decades ago upon Israel's creation.

"Secretary Clinton attended the September 11th Commemoration Ceremony for just an hour and thirty minutes this morning to pay her respects and greet some of the families of the fallen," spokesman Nick Merrill said.

The huge figures began the Memories of August 1914 commemoration, and will visit many of the city's landmarks before they sail away on the River Mersey on Sunday.