Sentence examples for may be commemorated from inspiring English sources

The previous North American calendar of the ELCA was different from its European counterparts in that it does not give equal weight (and sometimes gives no mention) to persons who may be commemorated in Scandinavian regions.

The poet may be commemorating saints and prophets, lost kings and soldier comrades, minor figures known and unknown.

A ferryman who died while working on a footbridge may still be commemorated in a West Sussex town after a campaign to name a bridge after him failed.

The attacks will be commemorated at ground zero on Sunday.

In Sicily the defeat of Carthage in 480 bc may have been commemorated by the famous decadrachms (Demareteia) associated with Queen Demarete, wife of King Gelon.

How will you be commemorating independence?

How will you personally be commemorating 9/11?

Also, we may have been commemorating the wrong event.

The most poetical of the lesser presidents may be Warren G. Harding, commemorated by John Ashbery ("Poor Warren. He wasn't a bad egg,/ Just weak. He loved women and Ohio"), and by James Wright in "Two Poems about President Harding," which takes a dimmer view: America goes on, goes on Laughing, and Harding was a fool.

Honoré (named after Saint Honoré of Amiens, who is commemorated on 16 May, four days before Balzac's birthday) was actually the second child born to the Balzacs; exactly one year previous, Louis-Daniel had been born, but he lived for only a month.

What is being commemorated here?