Sentence examples for created memorials from inspiring English sources

We began in places where I had reported two decades earlier, when memory activists, then often with the aid of local officials, created memorials or museums.

He temporarily shut down his dental practice, River Bluff Dental, where protesters created memorials, leaving stuffed lions to represent the one that he had killed.

Most of the candles, letters and flowers that created memorials to the victims of the July 22 bombings in the capital and the attack at a youth leadership camp have been cleared away by city workers.

People created memorials in parks and on billboards, lighted candles, held funerals, insisted on sipping coffee in downtown sidewalk cafes even though the air still reeked of acrid smoke, closed Broadway shows and opened them.

Some provided trenchant critiques of our current moment, while others created memorials to those we have lost, or dreams of what our movement and world could be.

In October 2001, the legislature consolidated the various legislation that created memorial highway designations in the state.

In response, Facebook created memorial profile pages, which allow us to visit, chat, and stay connected with our dearly departed friends and family.

"My first thought in creating memorials is that they do memorialize the event," he says.

But a quiet remembrance isn't very rock and roll, and as hundreds of thousands of people are proving, the social web enables us to create memorials just as loud and raucous as the concerts of those they memorialize.

For many of Ms. Watkins's friends and family, getting past the killing meant creating memorials to honor her.

There is, of course, nothing new about the very rich spending a fortune to create memorials to themselves.