Sentence examples for memorial failed from inspiring English sources

A cyber-attack on Estonia in April 2007, during riots about a Soviet war memorial, failed to do much damage Estonia is one of the most wired countries in Europe but caused consternation in Washington, DC and elsewhere.

Some felt that practical memorials failed to remember the war dead properly; others argued that these memorials helped support the survivors of the war and society as a whole.

Aesthetically, most of the new memorials fail to move or inspire as they should.

Jonathan Jones' fascinating piece about Holocaust memorials (War memorials have failed – we have forgotten the chaos of fascism, theguardian.com, 9 December) argues that they have failed to combat racial hatred in Europe and asks whether it could be that the works themselves are too modern or abstract to communicate with the public.

Mr. Broad has not managed to get everything he wants -- his bid to draw a National Football League team to a revamped Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum failed last year, as did his rivals' -- but it is not for lack of trying.

And in 2005, he suggested that Berlin's long-delayed Holocaust memorial still failed to explain "why a civilised people in the heart of Europe [was] capable of carrying out mass murder".

PHOENIX — An effort to substantially alter Arizona's official Sept. 11 memorial has failed, ending months of rancorous debate over statements on it that some deemed unpatriotic or irrelevant to the attacks seven years ago.

As Brian Rooney of the Rooney Report observes, "For two days reporters have covered veterans crossing barriers to visit the memorial, but failed to point out that the press was tipped to the event staged with the help of Republican politicians.

But as Prof. Cornel West's tribute makes clear, these memorials have failed to inspire many to adopt his vision for America and commit to pursuing it.

The Victorians bequeathed us their dead, lying in vaults and under stucco memorials, but failed to pass on any money for their upkeep.

All of the proposed memorial designs fail because they take a place that should be pulsing with life and embalm it.