Sentence examples for monument behind from inspiring English sources

Though he'd never volunteer this in a meeting, his strongest motivation is his fear of dying without leaving some monument behind.

Though the exact origins of Captain Kirk in "Star Trek" were not specified, the city council of Riverside, Iowa, in 1985 declared its town the future birthplace of Captain Kirk and erected a monument behind a former barbershop.

One afternoon at Horace Mann, Doug wrote, Berman called him in and asked which of three lives he wished to live: "(a) to leave no monument behind (e.g., a store owner), (b) to leave a quickly forgotten monument behind you (e.g., like your father), (c) to live immortal in a creation (e.g., Milton)?" Later, Berman invited him to join a group going on a two-month trip to Europe that summer.

Mr. Kennedy recited the names of the Columbia astronauts, carved into the black granite monument behind him: Rick Husband William C. McCool Michael P. Anderson David M. Brownown; Kalpana Chawla; Laurel Salton Clark; and Israel's first astronaut, Ilan Ramon.

Walking back to the Yale campus, I stumbled upon a vestige of the short-lived New Haven Colony -- a large monument behind Center Church that marks the burial place of John Dixwell.

All those gloomy legends amassed in the monuments behind center field and all those booming pregame history film clips seem to induce a bristling sense of entitlement.

Torre said that Monument Park, behind the outfield fence, is "a special place" for honoring Yankee heroes and that the new monument out there "is going to be a constant reminder".

When the exodus occurs every four or eight years, Washington's natives and monuments remain behind, the permanent Oz within the transient capital.

The impressive monuments left behind by early societies have encouraged the idea that they are advancements - the culmination of progress from hunter-gatherers to farmers and finally to civilisation.

And he did not tell them, that in large part, tourism in Turkey is thriving because of the monuments left behind by the massacred and expelled Greeks.

And then, with the eye of the Washington Monument a beacon behind him, Brian Williams congratulated the students on their achievement.