Sentence examples for Lay a cornerstone from inspiring English sources

It is to start construction next summer, not to lay a cornerstone for the first tower during the Republican National Convention.

Away from the recriminations, families of some of the dead crew members gathered today in the military town of Vidyayevo to lay a cornerstone for a memorial to the seamen.

Large units of Israeli police, equipped with riot gear, had entered the Muslim shrine after some Palestinians, roused by the attempt of a tiny messianic Jewish cult to lay a cornerstone for a third Jewish temple, had stoned the Western Wall plaza, the adjacent Jewish holy site.

The year was 1936, and President Roosevelt, Governor Lehman and Mayor La Guardia, along with 7,500 guests, had turned out to lay a cornerstone at Brooklyn College, a W.P.A. project that was under construction on a graceful ivy-covered campus in the heart of Midwood.

This election is meaningful in that it is an election to abolish the privileged class and to lay a cornerstone of the society called "reform".

Right-wing officials and activists, accompanied by Mike Huckabee, the Republican former governor of Arkansas, laid a cornerstone on Tuesday for new Jewish housing on the Mount of Olives in contested East Jerusalem.

At noon, Mr. Hikind led a group of about 50 American Jews in laying a cornerstone for the next phase of Nof Zion, with construction scheduled to start next spring.

Working at a company was not my first choice, but I gave it everything I had, and the work I did there laid a cornerstone for my future success.

It related bills that he has introduced and stated that he was a "proponent for the continuation of building throughout Jerusalem," mentioning that he had participated in laying a cornerstone of a new Jewish neighborhood in East Jerusalem.

As it is, he has laid a cornerstone for a book that remains to be written, and that may in time occupy the same shelf as Machiavelli, Hobbes, Rousseau, and Dewey.

The Plaza was dedicated by the Legion in November 1921 with the laying of a cornerstone from the bridge over the River Marne at Château-Thierry.