The phrase "commemorated for" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It means to honor or remember someone or something for a particular reason or achievement. Example sentence: The statue was erected in the town square to commemorate the soldiers who fought and died for their country.
Was Psyche (black servants in Britain were often given classical names) a boxer, and is he here commemorated for his prowess in the ring?
This patch of trees, held by a brigade of white South Africans at the cost of four-fifths of its men being injured or killed, was commemorated for some decades afterwards.
Christianity, which tells the story of another Father's willingness to sacrifice his Son, sublimates the impulse to sacred violence still further, with the bloody sacrifice of the Lamb of God commemorated for the past 2,000 years in countless variations on crosses and altars, in liturgical practices and works of art.
Some of those who were killed in the days when grand prix racing still took a regular toll of human life, notably Jim Clark and Gilles Villeneuve, were commemorated for years after their death, but none of them gripped the worldwide imagination as Senna did.
In black America, it's been commemorated for years, and it's even a half-assed "staffing holiday" in some states.
Beyond their topical context, however, Governor Cuomo's remarks ought to be commemorated for their greater political context.
Maybe next spring we'll put Craft on the docket, and they will once again have those simply prepared soft-shell crabs we've been commemorating for years.
And I was reminded of this a few weeks ago, at a special event in Dublin to commemorate – for perhaps the first time – the Irish women who took part in the Easter Rising, and to honour the involvement of Irish women in the life of the state ever since.
April 15 has special significance to Americans, but also people around the world who wish to commemorate, for example, the day in history when the fist balloon was flown in Ireland.
In any case, SEALAB II's month-and-a-half-long mission is worth commemorating for the scientific, commercial and military diving spin-offs that are still with us, possibly including the Navy's clandestine practice of deploying saturation divers from submarines outfitted with the equivalent of a mini-SEALAB.
Jerome Robbins, who died 10 years ago, was commemorated internationally for what would have been his 90th birthday, above all at City Ballet, which revived 32 of his works, some of them looking fresher than we had dared hope.
