Sentence examples for lighting a beacon from inspiring English sources

George W Bush and Tony Blair were intoxicated by self-belief, with fantastical visions of "lighting a beacon of democracy" as they doused the region in petrol and set it alight.

The National Trust also plans to light a beacon on top of Scafell Pike on Armistice Day, just as Lord Leconfield did on Peace Day on 19 July 1919.

In Tonga it was Boy Scouts and Girl Guides who lit the torches while in Canberra the honour went to Julia Gillard, the Australian prime minister, who lit a beacon at Parliament house.

They were in Mountain Ash to light a beacon on Sunday evening.

And if these platforms allow him to stay, that may light a beacon attracting more questionable content creators.

The hotel in Kenya where the Queen was told in 1952 of her father George VI's death will also light a beacon.

Sir Paul McCartney was the final act on a night that ended when the Queen lit a beacon to mark her 60-year reign.

In the evening, she will light a beacon setting in train a series of more than 900 beacons across the UK and around the world to mark the milestone birthday.

This year, Long plans to visit schoolchildren to talk about Pearl Harbor, then will light a beacon atop Mount Diablo in Concord, Calif.

In it we see two oilcloth-clad figures trying, during a storm, to light a warning beacon for passing ships.

In the evening, she lit a symbolic beacon, the first of more than 900 to light up across Britain and around the world.