Sentence examples for commemorated the beginning from inspiring English sources

The ceremony today commemorated the beginning of his public ministry, though his election to the historic office was actually confirmed in December at St. Paul's Cathedral in London.

Across Egypt, more than sixty people died in political violence on January 25th, and by now it was hard to claim that this anniversary commemorated the beginning of a real revolution.

Exercises at a Booker T. Washington monument located at the Tuskegee Institute commemorated the beginning of black American pre-flight training for military aviation.

The "Concord Hymn" became important because it commemorated the beginning of the American Revolution, and that for much of the 19th century it was a means by which Americans learned about the Revolution, helping to forge the identity of the nation.

ʿAsara be-Ṭevet (Fast of Ṭevet 10) commemorates the beginning of the siege of Jerusalem by Nebuchadrezzar II, king of Babylonia, in 588 bce.

Yesterday, as Palestinians marked Al-Naqba Day, which commemorates the beginning of the suffering and exile of the Palestinian people, Israeli forces shot at demonstrators.

At his arrival here on Tuesday, he said he had come to "commemorate the beginning and continuation of a new relationship between the United States and Vietnam".

"Just a good day," said Woods, who was wearing a white Stanford golf shirt, a choice he said he made to commemorate the beginning of the Cardinal's football season.

Similarly, I found it astonishing that two of the most prominent programmes made to commemorate the beginning of the first world war last year were the products of rightwing historians: Max Hastings, who thought the war was essentially a good idea; and Niall Ferguson, who thought it was essentially a bad one.

At a ceremony to commemorate the beginning of construction, President Nicolas Sarkozy of France and the crown prince of Abu Dhabi, Sheik Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan, officially opened an exhibition at the Emirates Palace hotel that includes 19 works of art bought over the last 18 months for the Louvre Abu Dhabi, as well as loans from the French national museums.

I met Zalitis and Garina there on June 17, which was both the third day of EuroPride and an official Latvian holiday commemorating the beginning of the Soviet occupation in 1940.