Sentence examples for instead of commemorating from inspiring English sources

For their ritual meal, they borrow the form of the Passover Seder, only instead of commemorating the Jews fleeing the bonds of slavery in ancient Egypt, they celebrate human beings escaping the bonds of gravity here on Earth.

Instead of commemorating Mubarak's overthrow, tens of thousand of Egyptians gathered in Tahrir to pledge their support for Sisi in an event stage-managed by the state.

Inserted into the shell of an old Palestinian house, in a neighbourhood now completely wiped out, the museum offers a shockingly one-sided history of how Tel Aviv came into being, celebrating the militias that destroyed the area instead of commemorating what was lost.

Inserted into the shell of an old Palestinian house, in a neighborhood now completely wiped out, the museum offers a shockingly one-sided history of how Tel Aviv came into being, celebrating the militias that destroyed the area instead of commemorating what was lost.

Given the somber nature of the occasion, dozens of tweeters called out Trump for using the word "celebrate" instead of "commemorate".

The anthropological literature has acknowledged the social and emotional significance of commemorating the dead.

The Twitter version of the calendar emoji says July 15 instead of July 17, to commemorate the anniversary of Twitter's launch.

Instead he commemorates "another year of our expulsion — which we call the nakba, or catastrophe".

Instead, it commemorates Piazzolla by using the energetic rhythms and cheerful, brightly harmonized themes that propel so many of his works.

Jewish tradition mandates that the date of death should be commemorated instead of mourned.

The monument instead commemorates the needless sacrifice of troops who were betrayed by a president who prosecuted a war he did not believe in for a goal that he could not define in public speeches or private conversation.