Sentence examples for memorial falls from inspiring English sources

The Broadway memorial falls squarely in the tradition of the Irish wake and the New Orleans-style jazz funeral, where music and laughter mix with emotion and loss.

From the small size of the statue, the tiny hat she's wearing, the placement away from her husband and to the absence of her greatest work, the Declaration of Human Rights, the memorial falls short of telling her true power.

Celebrating Independence Day on Monday also poses a problem: that would mean Memorial Day falls on Sunday, with ceremonies beginning on Saturday night, and the Israeli rabbinate fears that preparations for it would wind up desecrating the Shabbat.

Memorial Stadium fell silent forever.

However, two weeks before leaving office, Mr. Calderón publicly dedicated a nearby memorial to fallen soldiers.

Then he too died, and the honour of authorising the present memorial has fallen to the two first cousins who attended yesterday's ceremony.

In Koktebel, a bohemian resort town, popular with Russian hippies and nudists, children's carnival rides had been set up around a gloomy memorial to fallen paratroopers.

Chinese officials said they were particularly infuriated by the fact that Ms. Kadeer visited the Yasukuni Shrine, a memorial to fallen Japanese soldiers that has the remains of some convicted war criminals from World War II.

Nor does it remind readers of the affront given to the C.I.A., before whose solemn memorial of fallen colleagues the President stood as he delivered this performance of delusional self-regard.

Last Sept. 9, a six-foot-tall bronze of a kneeling firefighter arrived at Kennedy International Airport en route to Kingdom City, Mo., where it was intended to be a memorial for fallen firefighters for the Fire Fighters Association of Missouri.

But during white-minority rule remembrance faded, apart from a brief interlude in the 1980s as the apartheid-era government sought to remind foreign critics of South Africa's role in fighting for the "free world".Today, the site of Delville Wood is a memorial to fallen South Africans.