Sentence examples for commemorated as from inspiring English sources

That may seem like, well, overkill, but the Somme, like Gettysburg, Gallipoli and other battles stretching back to Thermopylae, will continue to be commemorated as long as fortitude under fire continues to be admired.

(A century later, Washington's birthday became a national holiday, now commemorated as a great time to buy a new car).

The memory of those who have fallen in war will be commemorated as the annual Poppy Appeal begins today.

The 1920 benchmark commemorated as women's hour of glory was experienced in its era as something more complex, and darker.

In the end, because ousting destructive governments is so traumatic, and so fateful, that evening 20 years ago deserves to be commemorated as a triumph for human dignity.

A Hezbollah militiaman stood guard with a walkie-talkie, near a large poster of a fighter who died recently and was commemorated as a martyr.

"They don't commemorate as much in Belgium as they do in Britain".

Like the mythical magpie, we have collected objects to beautify and commemorate as long as we, as a species, have been able to beautify and commemorate.

We see him through the eyes of four people: the characters that Christian tradition commemorates as Mary, Judas, Caiaphas and Barabbas.

This week we are called to sacrifice in order to honour and commemorate (as we can never full repay it) the ultimate sacrifice Christ made for mankind.

Nothing historical really happened on these days in the past for us to commemorate as secular Jews (except maybe the start of one of the Arab-Israeli Wars).