Sentence examples for honor of building from inspiring English sources

The delay caused Roebling to miss out on the honor of building the first permanent bridge to span the Niagara; Serrell completed the Lewiston Suspension bridge in 1851.

This act of defiance turned the Chinese government against Ai, who had once been viewed favorably by the regime and had been given the great honor of building the stadium for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.

Jim has led Taradel to Inc. 5000 status for nine consecutive years and was recently honored for building one of Richmond, VA's "Top 25" companies for the third time.

(In recent months, Mr. Moss sat instead in a nearby pew and an African cloth was draped at the altar, churchgoers said, to honor Mr. Wright's 36 years of building Trinity into what it is now).

The idea of building a memorial to honor soldiers killed in action during the Latvian War of Independence first emerged in the early 1920s.

Fittingly, in honor of the building's inauguration later this month, the city of Tel Aviv has declared 2012 to be Art Year, culminating in a four-day blowout Art Weekend March 21-24.

In 2006, she opened the Pig's Heaven Inn — named in honor of the building's one-time function.

Roebling would, however, achieve other honors in building his Niagara Railway Suspension Bridge.

As the club's commodore -- its equivalent of president -- Mr. Dana had the honor of cutting the building's cake as members sang "Happy Birthday to You".

Instead, the honor of best-looking building in the Sunflower State goes to the capitol in Topeka, which took 37 years to construct and is considered by many to be "the state's most important architectural treasure".

At the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, (415) 750-3640, www.thinker.org, Doing and Viewing, on Saturday mornings at the Legion of Honor building, combines a tour of a show or collection with related projects.