Sentence examples for mass commemoration from inspiring English sources
I didn't feel like I needed to take part in the mass commemoration because I had experienced what was being commemorated myself.
But the mass commemoration, the living re-enact ment and diplomatic celebration of the Normandy landings, is a different phenomenon.
And there are encouraging signs in Hong Kong's present identity crisis and the related groping for the most obvious forms of culture, not to mention in the city's political restlessness, as manifested in mass commemorations of Tiananmen Square and frequent demonstrations against Hong Kong's puppet government.
How fitting it would be if we held another mass evacuation in commemoration of the storm, and left the place to the media and dignitaries (three presidents!) who will soon descend on our home.
Why, when Hitler died in the ashes of Berlin in 1945, did the German Cardinal Adolf Bertram order that "a solemn requiem mass be held in commemoration of the Führer"?
What are we commemorating on Commemoration Day?
A memorial mass near the ruins of the destroyed Catholic cathedral started two days of anniversary commemorations which have focused attention on survivors' frustration at the slow pace of rebuilding.
The event is part of a series of commemorations of the 100th anniversary of Reagan's birth being held across Europe — including a memorial mass Monday in Krakow, Poland, and the renaming of a street after Reagan in Prague, the Czech capital.
We talk at the site of the Tomašica mass grave after yet another day of commemoration at Omarska, women laying flowers at the now-locked doors of rooms where they were kept, hardened men cracking up at the reliving of cruel memory.
Thanks to your work, December 9 now represents an important annual moment for the global community to come together to raise awareness of the Genocide Convention, its role in combating and preventing the crime of genocide, and the commemoration of the victims of mass violence - today and in history.
Instead of condemning the police, the government defended them.Turkey's international image slipped further in April, with the commemoration of the 90th anniversary of Turkey's mass murder of Armenians in 1915.
