Sentence examples for existing monuments from inspiring English sources

The lowland Maya suffered some temporary reverses; few stelae were erected between 534 and 692, and there is evidence that existing monuments were mutilated.

The city declined Summum's offer, saying the existing monuments either related to the city's history or had been donated by groups with longstanding ties to it.

In some instances, they merely copied existing monuments, but in others they innovated grandly, creating, for example, a Great Altar of Zeus — a low-slung, three-sided structure atop a sloping staircase, wrapped round by a frieze showing a battle of gods and giants.

And that "Hill is his own man, yet his poems bear witness to TS Eliot's high sense of tradition: 'The existing monuments form an ideal order among themselves, which is modified by the introduction of the new (the really new) among them'".

Since the law's enactment in 1906, 16 out of 19 Presidents (eight Democratic and eight Republican) have used their authority to either establish new national monuments or enlarge existing monuments for future generations to enjoy.

He has also expanded an existing monument.

Of all the ancient Jewish cemeteries in Europe, only the one in Worms, Germany, can claim any existing monument more venerable.

Dynamic finite element analyses for both the existing monument with its current conditions and the proposed repaired one are performed.

The Trump Administration's recent review of twenty-seven existinationalnal monuments elicited 2.8 million public comments, the vast majority urging that current monument boundaries be maintained.

The 30-year-old artist paints large-scale murals on existing local monuments, using structures like concrete buildings and grain elevators as his canvases.

Zinke has recommended Trump shrink or otherwise modify at least 10 other existing national monuments, according to a leaked copy of the report that the interior secretary submitted to the White House in late August.