Sentence examples for large commemoration from inspiring English sources

And there are indications that Xi will endorse a large commemoration of the 120th anniversary of Mao's birthday in December: Officials in Mao's ancestral hometown of Shaoshan are already making plans to spend close to $1 billion on festivities and the construction of memorial buildings, according to the South China Morning Post.

In 1961, a large commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the battle was held and attended by an estimated 10,000 people.

This was a much larger commemoration.

The second is a more private, but much larger commemoration located west of the crash site near Bayswater Beach Provincial Park on the Aspotogan Peninsula in Bayswater.

If, at this point, the chronology bore no connotations of danger for Christians, then they would have greeted the year 6000 with large public commemorations and celebrations, as the Romans did in ad 248 when they reached their 1,000th year.

Celebrated as a wedding feast, or the union of the soul with the beloved, it is the largest urs (commemoration of death anniversary of a Sufi saint) observation in India.

On March 30 , 2004 Illmatic was remastered and re-released with a bonus disc of remixes and new material produced by Marley Marl and Large Professor, in commemoration of its tenth anniversary.

The recent vigil was the only large-scale public commemoration of the victims on Chinese soil, and the Tiananmen events remain a taboo topic on the mainland.

They watched sombre commemorations on a large screen.

Hew Strachan, a prominent military historian who is on the advisory board, has warned that the commemorations "will be repetitive, sterile and possibly even boring" if the centenary turns into "Remembrance Sunday writ large".

The events marking the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings are likely to be the last significant commemorations attended by veterans in large numbers as many are now in their late 80s and 90s.