Sentence examples for lighted a torch from inspiring English sources

Mr. Bush laid a wreath and lighted a torch in memory of the victims.

So it is no happy coincidence that the same week that President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo lighted a torch to mark the anniversary, her government has been forced to compromise with one of Marcos's closest friends, Eduardo M. Cojuangco Jr.

As the marchers gathered near Dr. King's crypt, Bernice lighted a torch from the eternal flame and then handed it to the man she considered to be the spiritual heir of her father's legacy her "spiritual father," Bishop Eddie Long.

At one point, with danger all about, Jinx decides not to light a torch because it will take too long; a moment later, he lights it anyway.

But he didn't hesitate to blast a government committee last year for failing to include Arabs among those designated to light a torch during Israel's Independence Day ceremony.

On Thursday, Katerina Lehou, an actor playing a high priestess, lit a torch from the rays of the sun at the temple of Hera, using a parabolic mirror, to set off a domestic relay.

Insolence and narcissism lit a torch that led a generation through what might have been a dark age, for by 1983 one-third of Britain's jobless were under 25.

In a boon for any students writing theses on the history of British spy fiction, the granddaddy of the genre is also heading to BBC1 in a new three-part version of Joseph Conrad's novel The Secret Agent, a book that influenced Le Carré and Deighton as much as they subsequently lit a torch trail for others.

"Right now, the wireless industry is circling the wagons around Clearwire and getting ready to light a torch," says Berge Ayvazian, an analyst with the Yankee Group.

Rwanda's President Paul Kagame and Mr Ban lit a torch which will burn for 100 days - the length of time the genocide lasted.

I would light a torch and sing it loud.