Sentence examples for build monuments from inspiring English sources

"It originally started from Letterman's idea that the West is being ruined by all these nouveau riche people buying huge property, rerouting rivers, cutting down forests, building huge mansions with teak fences, wanting to build monuments for their own egos," McCall said.

"Looking at the cultural importance of these missile tests or at least how they're being used culturally with the building of these structures," Schmerler said, "it doesn't' make sense they'll build monuments for these things and then be like, 'Yes, we'll give them up.'".

BRITAIN likes to build monuments to trains.

And, on Fridays, they build monuments.

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg can build monuments to them.

The compulsion to build monuments to a ruler's power and prestige has existed since history began.

Mr. Hofmann, 54, New York City Transit's senior vice president for the subways, builds monuments to winners.

These include both sacred natural sites and built monuments (such as monasteries, temples, shrines, and pilgrimage trails).

"We need their stories now more than ever," Boog concludes, "because nobody builds monuments to failed men".

Over the centuries, the intrepid trailblazers mapped rivers, built monuments, and explored new terrain using tools such as a compass, sextant, and telescope.

The government built up the military, expanded the autobahn, put up stadiums for the 1936 Berlin Olympics and built monuments to the Nazi Party across Munich and Berlin.