Sentence examples for observed memorial from inspiring English sources

— President Obama observed Memorial Day on Monday just as his predecessors had, by placing a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns here.

Holiday Schedule: There will be no shuttle service on New Year's Day, Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Birthday (observed), Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Day.

CHICAGO -- Improvising after a fierce storm stopped him from speaking at a national cemetery near here, President Obama observed Memorial Day by visiting a house for families of wounded veterans getting treatment and, after flying back toward Washington, finally gave his address to service members at Andrews Air Force Base.

A citywide outpouring of grief culminated on April 5, 1911, in a 100,000-strong procession behind the hearses that carried the dead along Fifth Avenue; thousands more observed the memorial gathering.

A small number of states in the South observed Confederate Memorial Day this week and Trevor Noah has a few questions for those who decided to celebrate.

She observed that memorials usually name people.

Yesterday, classes were cancelled at M.I.T. to observe a memorial service for Sean Collier, the slain campus police officer.

I wasn't taking notes during Will Self's W.G. Sebald memorial lecture on Monday night, so I don't have anything verbatim to quote, but he did argue that Britain should not have decided to observe holocaust memorial day.

As University President Drew Gilpin Faust observed at his memorial, Peter was "an African-American from Plymouth.

Mr. Bloomberg also observed that the memorial was "particularly moving at night".

"Everyone wanted David on board," the former Lib Dem MP Jenny Tonge (Lady Tonge) observed at his memorial service.