Sentence examples for commemoration when from inspiring English sources

It is, first and foremost, a day of remembrance and commemoration, when we honor those who have fallen in war.

The first hint of tensions occurred after the 10th anniversary commemoration, when reports surfaced that Mr. Cuomo and Mr. Christie were annoyed at Mr. Bloomberg and the foundation over restrictions on access to the memorial and the ceremony.

Fragile and tearful, Epiphanie now relies on Adeline to look after her during the annual season of commemoration, when Rwandans mark the 100 days of genocide, starting on 7 April.

Fiona Hyslop, Scottish National party MSP and Scottish government secretary for culture, Europe and external affairs, said: "The Battle of Jutland was the war's largest naval battle and this will be an important commemoration when we should reflect on the bravery of the Navy and its sailors.

A week later, I was at the Reagan Presidential Library for another Reykjavik summit commemoration when I spotted Mrs. Nancy Reagan ambling down the hallway.

Esther Addley The commemoration began when the clock on the neo-gothic Town Hall struck 12, and a maroon was fired from the roof.

Every year, a Turkish human-rights group called DurDe organizes a silent commemoration on April 24th, when, in 1915, several hundred Armenian intellectuals were rounded up for execution.

Ali Rabis, 58, an unemployed shoemaker from Istanbul, said he had attended each public commemoration since 2010, when groups first came together on Istanbul's central Taksim Square to remember the 1915 genocide.

But Australia, overwhelmed with nationalistic, rose-coloured, government-funded sentimentality during the four-year festival of Anzac commemoration, is blinkered when it comes to looking too far beyond the military for its patriotism.

Armenians hold their commemorations on April 24th – when nothing happened at Gallipoli – because this was the day on which the Armenian intellectuals were rounded up and jailed in the basement of Constantinople's police headquarters prior to their deportation and — in some cases — execution.

When commemorations of the 1863 speech are held in the Pennsylvania town, it will be a local resident who reads out the famous words.