Sentence examples for great beacon from inspiring English sources

Look at the Pont d'Arc: it's a great beacon in the landscape.

This momentous decree came as a great beacon of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flame of withering injustice".

In a taxi hurtling home, perhaps feeling a bit queasy in the wee hours of New Year's Day, anyone looking up for reassurance to that great beacon of New York glamour, the Empire State Building, might have become queasier still.

And while the city has been viewed as a "great beacon for great police-community relations," she said incidents like the shooting of DuBose "have never really gone away".

Instead, try the Gowanus Expressway in Brooklyn and that late, great beacon, the former Elmhurst gas tanks site, where, if inbound traffic to Manhattan was back to there, you knew a bad day was in store.

One of Safire's former colleagues in the Nixon White House, however, said that his columns for the NYT were "a great beacon to us in the years of darkness".

Inside the huge lantern at the top were five great beacons, one aiming straight up through a hole in the top and the others coming out the windows.

"While the agency and foundation waste time, millions of Americans and aspiring Americans are denied decent access to our greatest beacon of freedom".

Craft Pride is Austin's latest and greatest beacon for lovers of Texas beer.

'Beijing,' writes Wu, 'won't allow Hong Kong to be special.' If the West is not careful it will soon see one of the greatest beacons of freedom and free enterprise go under.

"As great as Beacon is," Wright says, "we need something that catches the eye in New York City".