Sentence examples for commemorating the night from inspiring English sources

Germans take the business of remembering very seriously, and so Nov. 9 has always presented a bit of a challenge — how to celebrate the joy of the wall's coming down while at the same time commemorating the night of terror known as Kristallnacht, or the night of broken glass.

According to the tough British food writer Jane Grigson, Stargazy pie (sometimes spelled "Stargazey") is a Cornish creation traditionally made on Tom Bawcock's Eve, two days before Christmas, commemorating the night on which brave Bawcock went to sea to find sustenance for his foodless hometown of Mousehole.

It is known as the "Night of Power," and commemorates the night that the Quran was first revealed to the Prophet Muhammad, beginning with the exhortation, "Read!

Dr. Clayman was waiting outside the locker room for Elan, so he could take some pictures on the field to commemorate the night.

It commemorates the night, on April 18 , 1775 when the church's sexton risked his life to light two lanterns in the belfry.

Yet today, unlike Hiroshima or Nagasaki, there is no publicly funded museum in Japan's capital to commemorate the night of 10 March.

On Thursday, June 4, a plaque was unveiled on the MIT side of the Massachusetts Avenue bridge to commemorate the night in October 1958 when Oliver Smoot '62, was used to measure and mark the span from Boston to Cambridge.

The date commemorates the night — Sept. 16, 1999 — that Viktor Gonchar, once a deputy prime minister and election commissioner who became a popular opposition leader poised to challenge Lukashenko, disappeared along with a businessman who financed the opposition.

When Celtic pagans or early Christians (the holiday's origins are fiercely debated) held feasts to celebrate the autumn harvest, they couldn't have imagined that one day a man dressed as an Italian plumber created by a Japanese corporation would commemorate the night by peeing on my stoop.

Later, he commemorated the evening in his own book on love, "De Amore".

Just before the Champagne was served in fluted glasses, the mayor made sure to tell the crowd he would be attending events to commemorate the "Pogrom Night" in the evening.