Sentence examples for commemorative effort from inspiring English sources

All the commemorative effort went to Verdun.

And grant money for markers, studies and other such commemorative efforts has started to flow.

"Like other cold war commemorative efforts," Wiener notes, after tracking down the bronze plaque to an unmarked barn that receives an average of two visitors a year, "the pumpkin patch National Historic Landmark is remarkable primarily as a failure".

On Tuesday, a group of lawmakers played a commemorative soccer match, a lighthearted effort to mark the occasion of the start of the war in 1975.

Unlike Frosinone's Blanchard, they did not even get a commemorative shirt to show for their efforts.

Our efforts in marketing 9/11 commemorative items have already enabled us to donate more than $1.5 million to various official 9/11-related charities".

Rovelstad had heard of other efforts to gain authorization for commemorative coins, which were sold by the Mint to a designated group at face value and then retailed to the public at a premium.

But he was out more than $1,600 in expenses, and he had little else to show for his efforts than a box full of commemorative T-shirts, which no one seemed eager to buy, and memories.

At a commemorative prayer meeting political leaders resolved to increase efforts to improve women's security.

While most of the others had designed regular or commemorative coins for the Mint, de Francisci's sole effort had been the conversion of drawings for the 1920 Maine commemorative half dollar to the finished design.

Though it is commemorative in intention, the statue is important "because it documents the principal effort of Pawtucket to honor those who served in the Civil War".