Sentence examples for beacon in this from inspiring English sources

London's Docklands are a beacon in this respect.

In the case of Ramona Jones, for instance, who works in the human resources department of a county council - somewhere that should be an absolute beacon in this respect - a once very promising career has been railroaded by pregnancy.

James Beard (1903-85), these days, is known primarily as the name of an award, but the man's prodigious work is a beacon in this era of celebrating the local land, cooking gorgeous ingredients simply enough to allow them to shine.

Having said that, the NFL is the beacon in this country for all things football.

Making Portland a truly inclusive, livable and progressive beacon in this country is a long-term project that will require the city's residents to confront their racist legacy as well as the racism that persists today.

You have to love a precious stone that is perceived as sensitive and emotional, a gemstone with the power to unearth and reflect its owner's feelings -- a jack-of-all-trades, a guiding beacon in this increasingly tortuous path of our lives.

When I saw this building, this blue beacon, in the background of the updates and feeds of the last days of the year, it seemed a little like a time-traveller from another troubled time, arriving in our moment neither lugubriously sentimental nor calculatedly bombastic nor merely stoic but, in its lucidity and gravity, with a lesson about how to bear the unbearable.

We cluster round this beacon in the darkness.

But there is hope in all this, a beacon in the gloom.

The Casket Company was this amazing beacon". In the poem "Lavender Lake," about her adventures in apartment-hunting in Gowanus, she mentioned one dive of a studio with a crooked floor, made even less desirable by its dodgy location: "Besides, the place was across from the South Brooklyn Casket Company.

One of the few beacons in this dark time was this final-season episode in which a killer … um … uses numerology?