Sentence examples for commemorates not from inspiring English sources

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.

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

It is the head of a man formed from wood stump, flowers and produce, a vanitas motif that also commemorates not only the erosions of time, but nature's endurance.

The fact that the region's only steel industry museum commemorates not Carnegie's success but his failure to resolve the bloody Homestead Strike is a sign of how controversial his legacy remains.

Incidentally, the Ford Center commemorates not the playhouse in Washington where Lincoln was assassinated, but the motor car company whose founder, by chance, is a character in "Ragtime". Ford has an arrangement with Mr. Drabinsky's Livent company to have its name on this theater (as well as two others in Canada) in return for a fee.

But only Toronto would commemorate not building something.

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

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.