Sentence examples for commemorated not from inspiring English sources

She decided to take it on, held a hasty press conference at which she was flanked, rather bizarrely, by the communities secretary Eric Pickles, and announced that the Great War would be commemorated, not celebrated, through art.

So, a few days before Pennsylvanians vote, the candidates could have commemorated not just the Exodus from Egypt but also "the shot heard round the world," thus identifying themselves all at once with political liberation, religious freedom and — yes! — the right to bear arms.

On June 3 he commemorated not only the 82 years of his life, but he also put an end to a strategy of excessive control of Internet access.

But only Toronto would commemorate not building something.

On this occasion she was commemorating not personal sorrows but public ones.

Much in the Jewish part of the city commemorates not only the 1929 killings, but more recent deaths.

Hanukkah, it should be remembered, commemorates not only the Jewish defeat of Israel's Greek overlords but the defeat of Hellenized Jews by the Maccabees.

One metastatic vestige of that is the "cultural heritage" palaver involving the various Confederate monuments erected to commemorate not heroes but bankrupt ideas.

Kingsley Amis London, Oct. 5, 1986 My local, so local that even I can reach it on foot, is called The Queen's, commemorating not the present sovereign but Victoria.

He wanted to commemorate not just names and numbers, but a mind-set he and Liebenow's children feel is disappearing.

It's because this event commemorates not the incorporation but the founding of the village, which grew up around the Harlem Railroad depot.