Sentence examples for from commemoration from inspiring English sources

Three months after the centenary of the war's beginning, there is no sign – yet – of the British public suffering from commemoration fatigue.

We need only think of "The Diary of Anne Frank" and how a touching document, seized on by the public, gradually crossed the line from commemoration to exploitation.

If anything, the experience showed me that while Australians rightly revere the personnel who fought and died in all of our conflicts, few are attracted to the more jingoistic Anzac yarns, they want the politicians kept at greater distance from commemoration and they think deeply about notions of "sacrifice" and death on the battlefield.

12.45pm BST My colleague Caroline Davies sends this report from commemorations in Bayeux: This was it, the final time.

Aside from commemorations by a few female leaders on Capitol Hill, the day is hardly noticed.

In Romania, the Communist post-war government moved away from commemorations around Ascension Day, which was seen as carrying too many religious meanings.

A C of E spokesperson said the formal removal of his name from its commemoration list was "an issue for another day and involves a full synodical process".

One is Helmut Kohl, now 82, who became the German chancellor 30 years ago on October 1st, and was being wheeled by his second wife, 48, from one commemoration to another.

It is that lesson, perhaps, that was there in the past week to be drawn from the commemoration of Operation Barbarossa, which triggered the bloodstained years of what Russians call the Great Patriotic War.

Little surprise then that when, in 2007, we marked the bicentenary of the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade, the only feature film to emerge from the commemoration was Amazing Grace, a Wilberforce biopic.

(The novel's title comes from a commemoration of the twentieth anniversary of the Serbian siege, when thousands of red chairs, representing the victims, were arrayed in Sarajevo's main street, including many hundreds of small ones for the children).