Sentence examples for building monument from inspiring English sources

Allenby pledged "that every sacred building, monument, holy spot, shrine, traditional site, endowment, pious bequest, or customary place of prayer of whatsoever form of the three religions will be maintained and protected according to the existing customs and beliefs of those to whose faith they are sacred".

But building monuments to atheism from sea to shining sea is not really their goal.

Memorial succeeded in building monuments, including one near the K.G.B. headquarters, on Lubyanka Square.

Those who lack faith in fixed order and stable places have a harder time building monuments that must, in their nature, be monolithically stable and certain.

North Korea's rulers have viewed "eternal life" purely in terms of their ongoing earthly reputation, which has been fixed by building monuments and doctoring history.

The president of the university, Mr. Sikkema said, was concerned about the price tag for the Arets library and wondered if Utrecht should be building monuments.

In April it decreed the project unsuitable for Greece, which has a tradition of building monuments in proportion to human scale and the environment.

This is a tiptoe, first-do-no-harm form of architecture, in which so many interest groups have to be placated that practicing it is more like running for City Council than it is like building monuments.

"Politicians love building monuments to themselves," he told the BBC.

"Nowadays we are building monuments for anybody, everybody and nobody".

Recent studies emphasize how the work of building monuments brought geographically dispersed communities together.