Sentence examples for like memorial from inspiring English sources

The F.S.B. does not keep names secret; in fact, it has provided nonprofit groups like Memorial with lists of those persecuted, which have been published in so-called memory books.

Some of these gestures, like Memorial Day, have been very successful.

Penn has a network of community physicians, and other academic hospitals, like Memorial Sloan-Kettering, have suburban satellite centers.

Human rights groups like Memorial unearthed new facts in the perestroika period under Mikhail Gorbachev in the late 1980's.

Kadyrov presented himself as Chechnya's "chief human-rights defender"; he didn't seem to understand the purpose of independent bodies like Memorial.

Like Memorial Day or the Fourth of July, Labor Day has nothing to do with the rhythms of nature, nothing to do with the movement of the sun.

It bears not a single headstone, just a house-like memorial for the late-19th-century maggid, or preacher, Mordechai of Chernobyl, my paternal ancestor five generations back.

In the novel, Ms. Waldman imagines what would happen if a jury in charge of selecting a ground zero-like memorial were to choose a design created by a Muslim-American architect.

The Indian government has also drawn fire for trying to pass the disused factory off as a tourist spot – with local politicians last month proposing to build a Hiroshima-like memorial there depicting a detailed account of the disaster.

In "The Submission" Ms. Waldman, a former reporter for The New York Times, imagines what would happen if a jury in charge of selecting a ground zero-like memorial were to choose, from among the many anonymous submissions, a design that turns out to have been created by a Muslim-American architect.

Standing in front of the flat, slab-like memorial to Trayvon Martin in Goldsboro, Francis Oliver could not disagree more.