Sentence examples for past memorial from inspiring English sources

This past Memorial Day, our families gathered for a picnic on the Long Meadow in Prospect Park.

But past memorial services have also served to provide Mr. Obama with the emotional power to fuel his efforts to curb gun violence.

(A visit at 5 p.m. on the Friday of this past Memorial Day weekend found men in sweat pants joking with the lobby staff, and one stocky woman exiting carrying a Lord & Taylor bag).

This past Memorial Day at 8 a.m. he became the Buckeyes' head coach, and his only staff move was hiring one of his old college roommates, Mike Vrabel, who had retired after a 14-year N.F.L. career, to coach the linebackers.

This is the first Memorial Day of the new millennium, and thus an appropriate moment to examine the meaning of past Memorial Days and to speculate on what Memorial Day, besides its role as summer's tribune, may mean to us in the future.

"Never a dull moment," said Kathy Kranz, an office manager from Chicago, who spent this past Memorial Day weekend at the campground with nine other family members, including her 15-year-old son, Jimmy, and her 17-year-old daughter, Krystal.

By helping to forge a collective memory of the past, memorials may also help rebuild or reshape a sense of collective identity (Harjes 2005).

Voters trickled to the polls along streets draped with American flags, and past memorials of candles and posters, some of which were streaked blurry by the rain.

One of its newer trips is a high-altitude run in the Italian Dolomites, through breathtaking mountain scenery that includes the iconic Tre Cime peaks and using historic paths, tunnels and past memorials from the first world war.

Watching Mitt wander away, I thought about how at the end of every season of "Survivor" the finalists walk past memorials to departed contestants and try to come up with a pleasant anecdote about the woman who laughed at inappropriate moments or the guy who stole all the food.

The land in this area was the first bit of the Lake District to be owned by the National Trust, and this gentle stroll to the lakeside will take you past memorials to both Ruskin and Canon Rawsley, one of the Trust's founders.