Sentence examples for monuments of the two from inspiring English sources

A less measure, perhaps, of attention has been paid to the literary monuments of the two succeeding centuries, and especially as concerns the solid and enduring memorials of the mind and character of the 18th century, which have yet to be revised and edited in a worthy manner.

In one high-profile case, Cruz wrote the brief that persuaded the court to approve a monument of the Ten Commandments outside the state capitol, in Austin.

3. Present students with the following scenario: "Your town's mayor has commissioned a monument of the Ten Commandments for the town hall.

One of their landmark victories was to defend a monument of the Ten Commandments on the grounds of the state capitol.

Mr. Moore gained national attention for refusing to take down a monument of the Ten Commandments from his courthouse and then being removed from office.

Still, some heated state races — like a Supreme Court bid by Roy Moore, the judge famous for defying a federal order to remove a monument of the Ten Commandments from the Alabama Judicial building — could attract highly motivated conservative voters.

Religious activists were on the march in Alabama, too, arguing that a granite monument of the Ten Commandments at the state's main courtroom was perfectly compatible with the idea of separation if church and state (they lost).

In 2005 it ruled that framed copies of the Ten Commandments in courthouses and public schools in Kentucky were unconstitutional but that a giant granite monument of the Ten Commandments outside the Texas capitol was just fine.

Yet somehow one imagines that such arguments will fail to sway Oklahoma's legislators into allowing a giant, goat-headed, pentagrammed statue to sit next to a monument of the Ten Commandments.

Mr Van Orden, on his daily strolls in the grounds of the Texas capitol, became perturbed by a six-foot-high red-granite monument of the Ten Commandments that sits between the statehouse and the state Supreme Court.

Gone was the inimitable set piece for that first episode — a 5,280-pound 5,280-poundument of the Ten Commandments, which had been stealthily installed in the lobby of the State Supreme Court and which Chief Justice Moore refused federal orders to remove.