Sentence examples for commemorated the completion from inspiring English sources

Cristina Fernández de Kirchner officially commemorated the completion of the Yacyretá project.

The picture commemorated the completion of the transcontinental railroad and showed workers posing with two trains, one from the Central Pacific line and one from the Union Pacific.

Toshiba on Thursday commemorated the completion of a state-of-the-art plant in the city of Oita that will begin mass-production of next-generation semiconductors this fall.

Fifty years ago, two Mercedes 300 SL Gullwings won the Carrera Pan Americana race, a four-day, 3,000 kilometer marathon through Mexico that commemorated the completion of the Pan American Highway.

That's also when Nucla celebrates its annual Water Days, which commemorates the completion of the town's irrigation system.

It is designed to coincide with a milestone in the construction of One World Trade Center, a "topping off" ceremony that will commemorate the completion of the framework.

But Bierstadt's painting fits into another niche in America's expansionist history: It was commissioned by the railroad magnate Collis P. Huntington, to commemorate the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in 1869.

The Metro Pictures show, which spans three rooms in the gallery's garagelike space, begins with a nod to this history: included in one of Paglen's collages is a cartoon called "The Laying of the Cable," which commemorates the completion of the first transatlantic telegraph line, in 1858.

The police move came as organizers put out word on their Web site that they planned to "shut down Wall Street" with a demonstration on Thursday to commemorate the completion of two months of encampment, which has prompted similar demonstrations across the country.

Golden Spike National Historic Site, national historic site at Promontory in Box Elder County, northern Utah, U.S., near the Great Salt Lake, commemorating the completion in 6 1/2 years of the first transcontinental railroad (1,800 mi [2,900 km] of hand-built track) in the country.

Here and there are stones carved by the soldiers to commemorate the completion of their work: 'the cohort of Primus Pilus built this' scratched into a stone, or a phallus etched into a limestone block to propitiate a forgotten god.