Sentence examples for big commemoration from inspiring English sources

Recalling the last big commemoration that he organized, he said: "It is just like the 50th, we were overshadowed by Normandy.

There needs to be a big commemoration to preserve his memory".

But what could be the last big commemoration with a major gathering of surviving veterans is mired in a row over French broadcasters' handling of the so-called "pool" - the widespread arrangement under which media groups agree to share material.

Each year Hong Kong holds the world's biggest commemoration for the hundreds of demonstrators who died in Tiananmen Square.

Some of the city's biggest commemorations had to turn people away.

It will be marked by the biggest war commemoration ever; Britain has pledged £50m ($80m) to it.

"The attacks were expected, because this is the biggest annual commemoration with the highest number of pilgrims," said Hussein Sadhan, a member of Karbala's provincial council.

The Parks Department estimates that 10,000 visitors a day will attend the June 28-29 event and predicts that it will be the biggest Revolutionary War commemoration in the country this year.

Cultural plans to reflect the impact of the conflict are now advanced enough to see it is going to be the biggest national commemoration observed in the UK.

"Especially because there's been a big lot of commemorations this year," she started, and then played God Save the Queen on a flute, after which she gave a double fist air punch with her head bowed, a kind of fascist-salute-as-devised-by-Facebook.

There is a risk in doing so at the start of a big year, because the commemoration itself may produce worthy new discs to displace old ones.