Sentence examples for on commemorating from inspiring English sources

(Rather, like good, independent-minded Alaskans, the founders were intent on commemorating frontier capitalism).

HARVEY MOLOTCH, of New York University, on commemorating the end of recovery efforts at ground zero.

The emphasis was on commemorating Great Men — any trace of vice, pathology or ordinary humanity was effaced.

As a guest on Rev Al Sharpton's radio show last week, I listened to caller after caller express their view on commemorating confederate history.

All of which is well and good, but how long can we keep on commemorating the same events with the same intensity?

Korczak Ziolkowski, who worked briefly on Mount Rushmore, just south of here in the Black Hills, started the sculpture in 1948 at the behest of Chief Henry Standing Bear, a Lakota leader intent on commemorating his people.

The Henry, Mr. Simon said, simply evolved from the middle initial he decided on to commemorate Hymie.

We've always been desperate to get a game on to commemorate the match 100 years ago".

A special section on Sunday commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Op-Ed Page, introduced on Sept. 21, 1970, was omitted from some copies in upstate New York.

Guy Fawkes Day, also called Bonfire Night, British observance, celebrated on November 5, commemorating the failure of the Gunpowder Plot of 1605.

The flag became official on May 9 , 1985 commemorating the 40th anniversary of the liberation of Guernsey from German occupation.