Sentence examples for atop the gate from inspiring English sources
A pair of medical rubber gloves, rolled up together, has been tossed atop the gate of the Saba Deli.
After the ceremony, Mr. Jiang led the assembled leadership to view Mao's sarcophagus, enshrined in the square where Mao declared the founding of the People's Republic of China from atop the Gate of Heavenly Peace on Oct. 1, 1949.
At first sight, the animals resemble the four bronze horses by sculptor Johann Gottfried Schadow that have sat atop the gate since 1793, one of the city's iconic landmarks.
In 1949, Mao Zedong stood atop the Gate of Heavenly Peace and declared that the "Chinese people have finally stood up," a slogan that became the origin story of the modern nation.
For 73 years Harvard has been the home of 18 bells that pealed atop the gate tower of the Danilov Monastery -- until Stalin silenced the sound and killed the monks who made it.
Mao led his insurgent party to defeat the Chinese Nationalists in 1949, and he declared the birth of a new China — his new China — atop the Gate of Heavenly Peace, with a charisma and bravado that helped to bestow upon him the kind of holiness which was ostensibly banned from the new Communist regime.
In the reception room outside Khashab's office, a framed photo of the entrance of the refinery had been doctored -- the portrait of Hussein that used to stand atop the gates was covered with a piece of white paper, on top of which was written, in Arabic, the name of the refinery.
In 1949, Mao stood atop the Heavenly Gate in Tiananmen Square and declared, "More people means more power".
The developer has even mounted a statue of a Roman gladiator riding a chariot atop the entrance gate.
His best-known work is the "Quadriga of Victory" (1793), a statue of a chariot drawn by four horses, atop the Brandenburg Gate.
The news that Mr. Putin would receive the prize, named after the statue of a woman in a chariot pulled by four horses that sits atop the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, received relatively little attention in Russia.
