Sentence examples for birth of the great from inspiring English sources

Remember witnessing birth of the great Crab Nebula.

Herb is the tremendous significance of our commemo ration of the centenary of the birth of the great Lenin.

CELEBRATING GIELGUD -- Today is the 100th anniversary of the birth of the great British actor Sir John Gielgud, left, who died at 96 in 2000; and celebrations of his life have been in progress throughout the year.

To celebrate the centennial of the birth of the great American Cubo-collagist Romare Bearden the museum has invited more than 40 artists to create works in his honor.

Not only is next month the 200th anniversary of the log-cabin birth of the Great Emancipator, but Barack Obama will also conspicuously carry the banner of his Illinois forebear into the White House on January 20th.Mr Obama has asked to take his oath on the same Bible that Lincoln used at his 1861 swearing-in (pictured above).

It is 120 years since the birth of the great Expressionist painter.

That jocular little ceremony performed at Rupertswood country house by its chatelaine, Lady Janet Clarke, led directly to the birth of the greatest of all sporting contests.

And at the convention in Denver, the nominee gave his acceptance speech on the forty-fifth anniversary of the March on Washington, an event that Obama rightly saluted — while neglecting to mention that the previous day, August 27th, had been the centennial of the birth of the greatest civil-rights President in the twentieth century.

On 9 April, Hitler proclaimed the birth of the Greater Germanic Reich, his vision of a united empire of the Germanic nations of Europe, where the Dutch, Flemish, and Scandinavians were joined into a "racially pure" polity under German leadership.

This year marks the centenary of the birth of Henri Dutilleux, the great craftsman of 20th- and early 21st-century music, whose small but remarkable output was frequently the product of almost ruthless perfectionism.

Mahavira Jayanti, the principal Jain celebration, honours the birth of Mahavira, the great reformer of the Jain monastic community.