Sentence examples for building memorials from inspiring English sources

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.

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".

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.

The job of building national memorials is often complicated by the conflicting views of various stakeholders.

In other ways, the building of memorials drew on traditional forms and ideas, drawing on existing religious and architectural themes to explore loss and grief.

Similarly, Japan today is working towards building national memorials in the three prefectures affected by the earthquake, tsunami and radiation disasters of March , 2011

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