Sentence examples for burial from inspiring English sources

The capital's burgeoning population, upon their decease, were filling up its small churchyards, burial grounds and vaults.

Walker rejoiced – this was the scheme he had long supported as the solution to the burial problem.

Many of the old, disused private burial grounds would also eventually become garden cemeteries, of a sort.

Meanwhile, foul burial places in the centre of the metropolis – whether parish or private – could be closed by order of the secretary of state.

He always tells me he needs a proper burial.

The bell tower of Moscow's historic Novodevichy convent, a Unesco world heritage site and the burial place of many prominent figures, has been threatened by a fire that broke out on Sunday night.

Britain's Department for International Development (DfID) said: "Britain's help means that Sierra Leone now has enough beds for Ebola patients; enough labs to test for the virus quickly; enough trained burial teams to ensure bodies are buried safely and with dignity; and a command structure that has made the response more efficient and more effective".

Three vaccines are expected to be tested in health workers and burial teams at high risk in west Africa in early 2015.

My mother appeared with a shovel to prepare a full military burial when I noticed a twitch.

Her second book, What Happened to Daddy's Body?, also deals directly and sensitively with the realities of burial and cremation.

With no refrigeration facilities, and bodies and body parts piling up in the alley near the quake-triggered landslide that covered Las Colinas in a wall of dirt, there was little choice but mass burial, said coroner Mario Alfredo Hernandez.