Sentence examples for building in honor of from inspiring English sources

Congress voted last December to rename the building in honor of Mr. Clinton.

At noon, Mr. Siniora and some of his ministers and staff members held a moment of silence at the government building in honor of those killed in the fighting.

Indeed, about the only major change for many years was the renaming of the building in honor of the Rev. Adam Clayton Powell Jr., the pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church.

The Malkins weathered a storm of criticism last year for what was portrayed as their high-handed refusal to illuminate the Empire State Building in honor of Mother Teresa's 100th birthday because she was a religious figure — unlike the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Mariah Carey and others who had been honored in that way.

The idea to name the Justice Department's main building in honor of Kennedy was proposed in 1997 by Representative John Lewis, Democrat of Georgia, a civil rights leader who was severely beaten in Montgomery, Ala., in 1961, after which the Kennedy White House took action.

In 1912, Willamette renamed the building in honor of the Reverend Alvan (Alvin) F. Waller who was instrumental in getting the hall built.

He persuaded the owners of One World Trade Center to light the building red in honor of the newly elevated Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan.

Johnson named the building Popestead, in honor of his mother's cousin Theodate Pope Riddle, one of the first women to practice architecture in Connecticut.

In 2011, Georgia Tech opened the G. Wayne Clough Undergraduate Learning Commons building named in honor of his commitment to undergraduate students; it was dedicated on his birthday, September 24 , 2011

Mr. McNeil, and his brother Henry, supported the construction of a new building at USP in honor of their father, Robert Lincoln McNeil.

UPDATE 7 09pm: Despite plans to light the Empire State Building green tonight in honor of the 70th anniversary of The Wizard of Oz, the building is instead basked in red.