Sentence examples for memorials were not from inspiring English sources

Their memorials were not so much mournful as defiant.

Many memorials slowly deteriorated: in some cases the original inter-war funding had never included maintenance, in other cases the materials used to construct the memorials were not durable.

Although the Boer War encouraged a shift away from memorials portraying heroic commanding officers, as had been popular earlier in the 19th century, towards depicting ordinary soldiers, annual ceremonies surrounding the memorials were not common and no official memorial day emerged.

"But prayers and memorials are not a substitute for real, concrete change".

The plan needs Congress's approval because such memorials are not normally permitted on federal parkland.

And even the collective histories created or fixed by memorials are not stable.

Watching any disaster, from near or far, makes us aware that memorials are not only places but also experiences.

I WONDER whether our memorials are not in themselves, collectively, an expression of chronic fatigue on a national scale.

But walk around Charleston today and the most visible monuments and memorials are not to people like Jemmy and his Stono rebels.

That's because statues and memorials are not the mechanism through which we learn or remember history: books, museums, memorial days, heritage attractions and television documentaries, among others, perform that task.

The National Institute for Trauma and Loss in Children states that, "The only nationwide consensus regarding establishing memorials and memorial services in schools following student suicides is that memorials are not appropriate.