Sentence examples for building memorial from inspiring English sources

Encourage students to select the memorials mentioned in the article, as well as others (the Murrah Building Memorial, Maya Lin's Vietnam Memorial, the figurative sculpture Vietnam Memorial, the Lincoln Memorial and the World War II Memorial).

The United Daughters of the Confederacy sued Vanderbilt in 2002 after its first attempt to rename the building "Memorial Hall".

There's a certain cynicism in the story about the idea (or practice) of building memorials for public tragedies.

While their Greek neighbors were creating art and literature, the Lycians were building memorials to the dead.

In recent years, places like Birmingham and Montgomery, Ala., and institutions like the University of Mississippi have confronted and even embraced their roles in the battle for racial equality, building memorials and promoting sites associated with that era.

A law passed in 1919 provided for a subsidy from central government to local authorities to assist in building memorials; the money was distributed in proportion to the number of local citizens who had died in the war.

Increased federal spending as a result of the New Deal in the 1930s led to the construction of new government buildings, memorials, and museums in Washington.

As well as building the memorial in the Tenere desert, they built some smaller memorials in N'Djamena in Chad, and Brazzaville.

Building a memorial obviously raises huge questions.

Officials said the money would go toward building the memorial.

Ms. Lutnick and Cantor became an important voice in building the memorial.