Sentence examples for day of dedication from inspiring English sources

Instead, a proximate Sunday was observed as a "day of dedication" during the span of the war.

The official first-day-of-issue dedication ceremony for Milk's stamp will take place at the White House on May 22, which is known as Harvey Milk Day in California.

The eighth day is the fulfillment of priestly ordination, the day for dedication of the firstborn, a day to mark in circumcision the covenant relationship, a day of gratitude and offering.

On the day of its dedication in 1963, the architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner condemned the oppressive monumentality of its concrete forms.

A spark from the fire ignited the new roof, and on the very day of its dedication the church burned to the ground.

At the end of the movie, Tommy delivers a moral message that rings like a Christian sermon, which builds the entire action back to modest dreams and humble pleasures, pointing it away from the exotic powers behind the scenes and toward the day-to-day dedication of the visible, front-line forces of order.

In the end, no one is more of a regular Joe than Mr. Alterman in his sports jacket on the day of the building dedication.

By Wolcott Gibbs The New Yorker, November 12 , 1938P. 15 Notes for Armistice Day: (Optimistic) "Dedication of the Court of Peace at the N.Y.

I hope to one day have that level of dedication.

Both Mercury and Maia were honoured in the Mercuralia festival on May 15, the dedication day of Mercury's temple on the Aventine.

Meisner, who was not consulted about the commission, found that he had an engagement in Poland on the day of the window's dedication.