Sentence examples for lighting a torch from inspiring English sources

She began the protest march by lighting a torch at her father's grave site and then passing it on to her spiritual mentor and the march organizer, Bishop Eddie Long of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church, who proudly carried the lit torch in a two-mile march through Atlanta with thousands of followers, Rev. Bernice King adamantly stated that the march was not against LGBTQ people.

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

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.

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.

"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.

Germaine Greer, Gloria Steinem and Betty Friedan lit a torch and led millions of women out of inequity's darkness.