Sentence examples for identity died from inspiring English sources

Alec Campbell, the last survivor of 50,000 Australians who fought in the heroic, ill-fated campaign against the Turks at Gallipoli in 1915, helping forge their new nation's identity, died May 16 at the age of 103.

Peter Gzowski, the rumpled host of a national radio program in Canada whose gentle, homey tones gave voice to a generation of Canadians searching for their national identity, died on Jan . 24in Toronto.

Carolyn Rodgers, a leading poet of the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s whose work wove strands of feminism, black power, spirituality and writerly self-consciousness into a sometimes raging, sometimes ruminative search for identity, died on April 2 in Chicago.

Peter Novick, a history professor at the University of Chicago who stirred controversy in 1999 with a book contending that the legacy of the Holocaust had come to unduly dominate American Jewish identity, died on Feb. 17 at his home in Chicago.

For us, that entity and identity died.

Its sense of identity died years ago, and there aren't a huge number of people clinging on.

Mr. Harris, the author of several best-selling novels about black men with conflicted sexual identities, died on July 23 in Los Angeles while on a tour to promote his latest book, "Basketball Jones" (Doubleday).

Patrick McGrath is a master of the grotesque, perhaps best known for his expressionistically unreliable narrators, their overheated identities dying like flies on flypaper in front of the reader.

Economic identities die hard.

A 146-year-old oak tree in Guernica, long a symbol of Basque identity, has died, a victim of last summer's heat wave.

The last remnants of the Soviet identity are dying out, whereas the pre-Soviet identity has not been restored.