Sentence examples for commemorated from from inspiring English sources

The public will now choose who is commemorated from a shortlist of famous Mancunian women which could include British suffrage movement leader Emmeline Pankhurst, novelist Elizabeth Gaskell, birth control pioneer Marie Stopes or Ellen Wilkinson, the MP who organised the 1930s Jarrow march and who was the first female education minister in the post-war Labour government.

The temptation is to think and say otherwise, to canonize Mandela as "the one" who accomplished the miracle of a unified South Africa, and in the process to put him on the shelf of history to be safely admired and commemorated from a distance, with our only obligation being to respect his life and memory.

Let us hope that Senator Obama understands the significance of all of those August 28ths that we now commemorate, from The March On Washington in 1965 to Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer's courageous stand at the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City in 1964.

There were arguments among victims' families, too: some families of first responders wanted their loved ones commemorated separately from the others, to honor their heroism, which suggested a hierarchy that upset other families.

Woody Guthrie's hundredth birthday is this July, and it's being commemorated with everything from a special Web site (Woody100.com) to a new Shepard Fairey print to a raft of concerts and panels.

But the start of her Northern Ireland tour was devoted to Enniskillen, where an IRA bomb in 1987 killed 11 Protestant civilians and wounded 63 others as they commemorated British dead from the two world wars.

The event commemorated an episode from 490 B.C., when a messenger named Philippides was said to have run from the Greek city of Marathon to the capital city of Athens — a distance of around twenty-five miles — to share the news that the Greeks had beaten the Spartans in battle.

Moe Tucker was an I.B.M. keypunch operator when she… Woody Guthrie's hundredth birthday is this July, and it's being commemorated with everything from a special Web site (Woody100.com) to a new Shepard Fairey print… Sinéad O'Connor has always had a talent for distracting people from her talent.

Travelers who stray from typical itineraries will encounter museums commemorating everything from communications troops to the secret development of Joe 1, the Soviet Union's first atomic bomb.

There are now hundreds of memorials, from concentration-camp museums to plaques commemorating resisters, from Gestapo prisons to brass bricks sunk in the pavement outside ordinary houses, naming the Jews who once lived there.This landscape is undergoing a shift.

The conflict, a favored theme in art from the Middle Ages onward, was commemorated in literary works from John Milton to Jonathan Edwards and William Blake.