Sentence examples for modest commemoration from inspiring English sources

LONDON — In the welter of passion and memory surrounding the decline of Nelson Mandela, a more modest commemoration slipped by a week ago that said much about the role he played as an inspiration in his long years of imprisonment, when the daily grind of struggle against apartheid fell to others who fought in his name.

The class might consider providing a prominent memorial to him and more modest commemorations for other classmates.

None except an unusual commemoration granted at a modest opening ceremony two months ago when a vast former landfill site on the edge of Tel Aviv was renamed Ariel Sharon Park.

Modest by the standards of memorial Web sites like Tributes.com — a for-profit company that amasses 80 million obituaries — Mr. Bartlett's site, gayhistory.wikispaces.com, is far from the first AIDS commemoration.

Benjamin Abtan, president of the European Grassroots Antiracist Movement (Egam) that has been part of the commemorations since 2011, said that despite the modest number of participants, the atmosphere in Turkey had changed.

A couple of documentaries appeared around the time of the 60th anniversary of the flood but compared with the commemoration of the 2004 Asian tsunami the coverage was modest.

But those actions were fairly modest, and they transpired only after a tense debate within the party's Politburo over whether public commemoration of Mr. Hu would reopen the wounds of 1989, Chinese party officials have said.

The French have also said the Brown government was slow to accept that the ceremonies merited more than a modest British involvement, since British policy had been to give full-scale government backing only to commemorations at decade-long intervals.

On a day when Memorial Day parades throughout the state attracted political candidates of every stripe, Mrs. Clinton said she selected the relatively modest parade in the town where she moved five months ago because it reminded her of commemorations in the Chicago suburb where she was raised.

Just no official commemoration.

Such commemoration cuts both ways.