Sentence examples for before the dedication from inspiring English sources

The honor guard drill team, right, performed before the dedication ceremony.

Visit to the Old Wills house, where Lincoln spent the night before the dedication of the National Cemetery.

"From the beginning, there were some in the Army who questioned the need" for a new library, said General Finnegan, the academy's dean, in an interview before the dedication.

In a statement released the day before the dedication ceremony, Esterino Montino, a regional leader of the Democratic Party, said, referring to the Nazi leader Hermann Goering: "It's as if some little village in some German province built a monument to Goering.

The opening, coming a month before the dedication on May 29, was approved by the American Battle Monument Commission to give as many World War II veterans as possible a chance to see an effort that survived 17 years of legislative, legal and artistic entanglements.

The covered statue was guarded by police so no one could see it before the dedication ceremony the following day.

But a substantial, festal mass setting (probably K 139/47a) was successfully given before the court at the dedication of the Orphanage Church.

A Masonic ceremony, along with music and prayers, took place at the dedication before the main speech by Major General Benjamin Brown French.

The codex was to be presented to the pope, a decision only announced by Ceolfrith very shortly before the departure, allowing the dedication page to be dated with confidence to around May 716, though the rest of the manuscript was probably already some years old, but only begun after Ceolfrith succeeded as abbot in 689.

Before the Williams dedication was approved, Driesell denounced the plan in an e-mail to the university chancellor, stating that it was "not fair to my players".

On Saturday, six days before the scheduled dedication of Alex Rodriguez Park, reports emerged that Rodriguez had tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs six years ago.