Sentence examples for a shining beacon for from inspiring English sources
"If you carry nothing else away from this," said Mr. Greyerbiehl, "it's that this is a shining beacon for where the world could go".
William V. Campbell, chairman of Intuit, guru to other corporations, has become a shining beacon for the possibilities of life after shoulder pads.
And, after all, there had to be someplace besides certain sections of hipster Brooklyn where -- as Sam Sifton, the restaurant critic of The New York Times, pointed out in a review awarding Red Rooster two stars -- the servers, the crowd and the atmosphere all come together to represent the "polyglot, diverse" city that has historically been "a shining beacon for people of all races".
One day they will learn it in school, and we want them to be able to say, 'We were there.' " Mr. Obama not only praised Mr. Mandela at the news conference, but in his first visit here as president also hailed South Africa's historic integration from white racist rule as a shining beacon for the world.
"People would say to her, over and over again, 'I went into politics because of your father, and your mother was a shining beacon for your family,' " said Esther Newberg, Ms. Kennedy's literary agent and a former aide to her uncle Robert F. Kennedy.
Visible for miles around, the Acropolis was intended as a shining beacon for classical civilisation – a temple complex synonymous with a golden age of genius architects, chin-stroking philosophers and glorious military victories.
Home lighting may not feel like a shining beacon of hope for those of us sitting under a 100-watt bulb.
He is a shining beacon of hope for all the young men who have chosen musical theatre as a path to stardom.
The Evil Geniuses Dota team is a shining beacon of hope for North American eSports.
So the Indian government set out on an ambitious course to build Aadhaar, the world's largest biometric database, which would not only allow these people to participate more fully in society but also become a shining beacon of technological achievement for the rest of the world.
Thank you, AT&T, for being a shining beacon of hope in our otherwise bleak, bleak world.
