Sentence examples for of this inauguration from inspiring English sources

Abraham Lincoln is the patron saint of this inauguration, like Obama a man from Illinois, the president who liberated the slaves to whose race the soon-to-be 44th president belongs.

Schumer mentions that the theme of this inauguration is "faith in America's future" – and goes on to describe the topping off of the Capitol Dome at the height of the American civil war.

But when Obama spoke it was immediately apparent that the tone of this inauguration was grave, addressed as much to the hundreds of millions tuned in around the world as to the shimmering sea of upturned faces in front of him.

That theme of renewed unity -- spiritual and communal, crossing the many divides in U.S. society -- was perhaps the central thread of this inauguration.

There is no doubt that an NBC camera will grab a shot of him looking entirely, entirely pissed off and bored, and a photo of this will be the emerging meme of this inauguration.

There is no doubt that an NBC camera will grab a shot of him looking entirely, entirely pissed off and bored, and a photo of this will be the emerging meme of this inauguration.

Growing Up : Aural And Poetic Revelations "Beyond Rhetoric" Maya Angelou The sadness of watching this inauguration poem again in the light of the intervening years is replaced by the enduring validity of the words in any context and to any civilization, delivered like the rock, the river and the tree.

"He played those until the grooves wore out," Mr. Nicholas said, adding that "we felt there would be that same sort of feeling around this inauguration".

• To the Editor: Re "Classrooms Find Lessons in Obama's Inauguration" (news article, Jan . 16: While schools nationwide gear up to acknowledge the inauguration of America's 44th president, Barack Obama, it is important that they highlight the historical lessons of this particular inauguration and steer clear of any whiff of partisanship.

But it wasn't merely pomp and circumstance: the purpose of this rump inauguration was to enforce the Confederate Conscription Act, and thus forcibly enroll Kentuckians into the Confederate Army, which they had voluntarily avoided up to that point.

As a celebratory bookend to what Huffington Post readers wrote when I gave them my blog in October to post why they would vote for Obama, I now give you my blog to write about your experience of this historic inauguration.