Sentence examples for commemorative function from inspiring English sources

The site appears to fill an important commemorative function in addition to its research benefits.

After all, the exposed slurry wall, the waterfall and the names of the public spaces he specified all had a commemorative function.

This commemorative function influenced the plan: in front of the apse a large transept, sheltering the site of the relics, facilitated the presentation of the liturgy and the circulation of the faithful around the sacred place.

For this reason, still influenced by the tenets of the skeptical tradition at that time,[7] Augustine was limiting the capacity of the sign to its admonitory or commemorative function (Augustine De magistro XI 36, 1974, 194).

But my argument is that the castles resist a commemorative function because of their bifurcated architecture: At the top, the visible castle is a replica of European domestic spaces at the dawn of modernity; at the bottom, underground, are "medieval" dungeons where the repressed bodies that enable the civilizing process are kept out of sight.

He obtained government backing for his idea, and arranged for more than twenty former American generals, including Leif J. Sverdrup, Hugh John Casey, William C. Chase, Clyde D. Eddleman and LeGrande A. Diller, and their wives to visit Australia in 1974, with commemorative functions being held in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane.

This commemorative fiction is hardly an apology.

The representation of a mosaic mask on a stela (an upright, freestanding stone slab functioning as a commemorative monument) at Seibal, Guatemala (590 ce), established the early use of the technique in Maya territory, but it became best known from the few specimens surviving from the time of the Aztec empire (c. 1376 1519) and from descriptions of others left by the Spanish conquerors.

The pseudo Vine star teased us with his track off the forthcoming commemorative album for DirtyBird Records, Dirtybird 10, called "Function".

What is the purpose of a commemorative day?

Since the churches of Palestine commemorate the earthly appearances of Christ, his Birth, and his Resurrection, they are comparable in function to the Greek hērōa, which are commemorative temples.