Sentence examples for he was commemorating from inspiring English sources

Soon he was commemorating all kinds of art world events -- past and present, local and international.

Mr. Glenn, attending numerous events in Washington to celebrate his first flight, joked that he was commemorating the event mostly by talking about it.

When Delacroix painted his epic landscape portrait of suffering humanity, Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi, he was commemorating a real event of recent history, the exodus of April 22 1826 when 7,000 starving citizens of Missolonghi attempted to break out of the city, then under long-term Turkish siege.

In remarks to the Commonwealth Club of California in San Francisco, where he was commemorating the third anniversary of the state's ground-breaking law to reduce gases that contribute to global warming, the governor described growing up in Europe after World War II, when efforts at conservation were pervasive, and complained about his four children's lack of similar discipline.

The idea for the stolpersteine emerged when he was commemorating the deportation of 1,000 Gypsies from Cologne by painting a white line through the city, showing where decades earlier they had been chased through the streets to the train station.

Chris Bauer, who attended the New York event, told the New York Daily News that he was "commemorating the victims of Bowling Green".

When a member of al-Qassam blew up himself and his victims in April , 1994 in retaliation for the massacre of Muslim worshippers in Hebron by the Israeli extremist Baruch Goldstein, he was commemorated in an anthem that ushered in a new popular genre of "revenge songs".

He was commemorated on several Polish postage stamps.

His year of death is unknown, but he was commemorated on 20 November at Hereford Cathedral.

Considered one of the university's great benefactors, he was commemorated by the Oswald Watt Fund.

He was commemorated in a book by his niece and a song by Headgear.