Sentence examples for complex of monuments from inspiring English sources

To enter the grounds of the complex of monuments that best symbolizes the Baath Party's 34-year rule in Iraq, Kanan Makiya had to drive today across a concrete speed bump embedded with the helmets of dead Iranian soldiers.

To quote a letter from a group of eminent American and British scholars published in The Irish Times recently, "Tara wasn't just a site, but a landscape, a complex of monuments that, in combination with the topography, place names, mythology and history make this a uniquely well-preserved place of truly international importance".

The Athenian Acropolis is a unique complex of monuments located on a hill in the centre of Athens.

Hue's complex of historic monuments, centred on the imperial citadel, was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1993.

In the sweet liquid light of morning, after a breakfast of scrambled eggs, toast, potato chips and instant coffee, noshed to the tune of "Those Were the Days, My Friend," (it is originally a Russian song, called "Dorogoi dlinnoyu") we set out to tour Pyongyang, a city that could be called Edifice Rex, for its complex of outsized compensation monuments.

First a stop before the plaster model of the stupa is in order: one of the largest, most complex monuments of this kind, the stupa boasted an abundance of carvings, and looking at them today makes a lot more sense if one can figure out where they were originally placed.

"1300 Years of Bulgaria" has not been designated an "immovable cultural heritage" in Bulgaria, but the topic of delisting and removal of monuments is very complex and sensitive.

"We are trying to see them less as collections of monuments and more as complex urban wholes".

The axis of the pyramid complex may be associated with a series of monuments strung out along a kilometer of desert.

Zachos writes this about the patron of the victory monument: "The complex of structures was both a symbol of Octavian's victory and power and also a monument of political and religious propaganda" (65).

The Khmer have a long history, of which the 12th-century temple complex of Angkor Wat is a monument.