Sentence examples for commemorative speeches from inspiring English sources

It is this security, more than a museum or commemorative speeches, that will be the greatest homage we can pay to the victims of the Rwandan genocide.

On May 5th, Israel's Holocaust Remembrance Day, he delivered a commemorative speech, calling for national soul-searching.

The commemorative speech reading and fly-past at Whitehall is being attended by battle veterans.

A commemorative address will be given.

She campaigns against prostitution and has written several articles on the subject, as well as delivering speeches on it, most recently at the Andrea Dworkin commemorative conference at Oxford University.

Contravening the commemorative tradition in Colombia (this country that has always liked to commemorate everything), my father did not make his speech a politicised version of our childhood history primers.

In Harare, Alex Duval Smith reports Foreign workers in Africa earn good money and have all they need, but the risks are high The African National Congress stumbled into its second century yesterday with little rejoicing, amid a clampdown on speeches and after international dignitaries stayed away from a chaotic series of commemorative events.

With men and women dying in Iraq and Afghanistan, Mr. Bloomberg gave a solemn speech from the deck of the Intrepid and helped toss a commemorative wreath into the HudsonRiver.

One day before the Pearl Harbor parade, team members also performed during a commemorative ceremony held near the USS Bowfin that was, in part, choreographed to the speech President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered to a joint session of Congress the day after the Pearl Harbor attack in 1941.

But when Gómez and his fellow veterans gather for the usual commemorative activities this weekend, there will be an unusual note of optimism – and even amiability – in their speeches and reflections on the current resident of the White House.

Rooney was presented with a commemorative shirt by Roy Hodgson in the dressing room after the game and made a short speech to his team-mates.