Sentence examples for over the statues from inspiring English sources

The formal debate was over; the statues stayed put.

A judge ordered that the black shrouds over the statues be removed.

He didn't want the neighbors throwing paint all over the statues — which is what some people said would happen.

"We are only breaking stones," the Taliban leader Mullah Muhammad Omar said dismissively in 2001, when he heard the international outcry over the statues' destruction.

Seventy-five thousand people visit every year, most of them families with children, who scramble over the statues, dazzled by their size and their wildness.

Mystery hangs over the statues' fate: the Taliban have not allowed outsiders to travel to the town, a two-day drive to the west of Kabul.

In the late 1970s, Kochiyama was part of a group of largely Puerto Rican nationalists who temporarily took over the Statue of Liberty in support of Puerto Rican independence.

As the sun was setting over the Statue of Liberty, Central Park came to life last night in her honor, in an international classical concert that was as spirited and lively as the enormous crowd that watched and listened.

The United States Lighthouse Board took over the Statue of Liberty in 1887 and pledged to install equipment to enhance the torch's effect; in spite of its efforts, the statue remained virtually invisible at night.

These incidents are especially shocking to New Yorkers, who pride themselves in the diversity of a city whose harbor is watched over by the Statue of Liberty.

Although unlike the time she presented Affleck a Golden Globe in January, Larson chose to give the actor a quick hug as she handed over the gold statue.