Sentence examples for cornerstone is laid from inspiring English sources

Rather than breaking already broken ground at the World Trade Center site on July 4, Gov. George E. Pataki will instead preside as a cornerstone is laid for Freedom Tower -- more than 20 tons of garnet-flecked granite from the Adirondacks.

On the one-year anniversary of the bombing, a cornerstone is laid for The Times' third building at the same location.

D1 NEW YORK/REGION B1-5 FIsst Stone Is Laid For Tower at Ground Zero A garnet-speckled cornerstone was laid for Freedom Tower, the tallest skyscraper planned at the World Trade Center site, after an hourlong ceremony.

Its cornerstone was laid by President Theodore Roosevelt.

The cornerstone was laid by Washington on September 18 , 1793

The cornerstone was laid in 1793, and work continued until 1801.

The cornerstone was laid in 1921 by the duke of Connaught, third son of Queen Victoria.

In May 1901, when the cornerstone was laid, it bore a silver plaque praising him.

Soon after the cornerstone was laid in 1892, problems began to arise.

Its cornerstone was laid in 1892, but the cathedral remains unfinished.

Masons presided when the cornerstone was laid at the Statue of Liberty.