Sentence examples for lit a beacon from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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.

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

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

"[He is] a light, a beacon, the sun.

Another issue was the store's bright lights, a "beacon in the night," as Mr. Jennings put it.

Golding's boys light a beacon as a signal to rescuers, while their successors this year set fires merely to indulge the destructive delight of arson.

Plans to light a beacon for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee on Painswick Beacon in Gloucestershire are under threat.

It explains that you are to let your life be an example to others, a light, a beacon.