Sentence examples for funeral marked from inspiring English sources

The funeral marked the birth of a new lobby group, Science for the Future.

It has been argued that his funeral marked the end of an old order that was to be gradually replaced by a more modern society.

Because of his recent transition to an independent artist, "The Funeral" marked a huge moment in 50's musical career.

The state funeral marked the first time that Washington hosted a major event since the September 11 attacks.

The funeral marked her first major public appearance since delivering a speech to the 1996 Republican National Convention on her husband's behalf.

As Barbara Tuchman noted in The Guns of August, his funeral marked "the greatest assemblage of royalty and rank ever gathered in one place and, of its kind, the last".

The coffin of a woman killed by a mob in Kabul who accused her of burning the Koran - apparently falsely - is carried by women at her funeral, marking a break with Afghan custom.

Researchers believe that their funerals marked the next steps on the virus's devastating sweep through Guinea and across the nearby borders into Liberia and Sierra Leone.

But the Churchill funeral also marked the end of an era, as some of those who were there sensed.

But while it was an intensely personal tragedy for his family and his community, his funeral also marked the grimmest of milestones in a wretched year for British forces in Afghanistan: the 100th casualty of an increasingly bloody war.

One of her lovers, the singer and actor Charles Aznavour (whom Piaf helped to launch in showbusiness), said that her funeral procession marked the first time since the end of the second world war that Paris traffic had come to a complete stop.