Sentence examples for historical statues from inspiring English sources

In Caracas, activists began placing the hats on the bronze heads of historical statues around town.

The Citywide column on June 1, about efforts to erect a statue of a Puerto Rican in Central Park, referred imprecisely to the park's inventory of historical statues.

But for the thousands of Chinese tourists who travel to Cambridge every year, it is this, rather than the city's grand 15th-century chapel, meticulously manicured lawns or historical statues, that they've come to see.

In the context of Trafalgar Square with its military, valedictory and male historical statues to individuals, this elevation of everyday life to the position formerly occupied by monumental art allows us to reflect on the diversity, vulnerability and particularity of the individual in contemporary society.

Hull has a number of historical statues such as the Wilberforce Memorial in Queen's Gardens and the gilded King William III statue on Market Place (known locally as "King Billy").

On Infowars, blogger Paul Joseph Watson compared taking down the Jefferson Memorial to the logic of Islamic State terrorists "who have spent the last year tearing down historical statues and monuments because they offend their radical belief system".

Would Mr Kwoba not show more integrity if his energies were directed against a living horror, not a historical statue?

Paul Trewhela Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire Is the world such a near-perfect place that a priority for some students at Oxford is the removal of a historical statue?

For instance: scanning historical landmarks, like statues, while on a sightseeing tour, or scanning some consumer good, like a desktop printer, in order to unlock a visual instructional manual.

Also, places like the movies, cafes, the beach or historical monuments or statues with romantic connotations (such as the Empire State Building in New York City) are places to avoid like the plague.

The Algerian-born French artist Adel Abdessemed cast Zidane's headbutt as a grandly historical 5m (16ft) bronze statue, as if it were a statue by Rodin.