Sentence examples for making commemoration from inspiring English sources

But they can also absolve communities of responsibility by making commemoration the duty of some distant authority.

Although much art has been made in commemoration or condemnation of the event and its aftermath, and despite that the imagery is ubiquitous in popular culture, no single great work of art has emerged from direct use of the iconography of the mushroom cloud.

Like my Catholic friend who invokes a special saint for luck in finding parking, Shiites are also on intimate terms with their saints, holding feast days as commemoration, and making pilgrimages to Shiite shrines in cities like Damascus, Najaf and Masshad.

It's time to make that piecemeal commemoration official: stop celebrating Columbus and start celebrating the native cultures he began the process of displacing.

A commemoration made sense, especially after the violence of the riots.

He could have landed at Minsk, which would have been safer but would have ruined the commemoration ceremony by making the president late.Was that just the pilot's decision?

It says: We're back!' Every year now, there is a commemoration service at Omarska, making this the gathering of a unique tribe in Europe, Clan Omarska.

In a statement made during war commemorations in Gallipoli, Prime Minister Tony Abbott indicated the likelihood of a reprieve was minimal, saying "I guess there's always hope while there's life but obviously these are late days".

She followed that campus demonstration by making her first public speech at Oberlin's August 1 commemoration of Emancipation in the West Indies.

Commemoration is made meaningful if it becomes an instructional tool.

He made the remarks in commemoration of Victory Day, which has become Russia's major patriotic holiday.