Sentence examples for peace arch from inspiring English sources

Peace Arch (1921) and International Park mark the western extremity of the U.S.-Canadian border.

[5] Marking the "mainland terminus" of the 49th-parallel border at the crossing from Surrey, B.C. to Blaine, Wash., the Peace Arch straddles the actual border, and is the centerpiece of the adjacent Peace Arch State Park and Peace Arch Provincial Park, where one can cross freely between the American and Canadian sides (but only after clearing customs on either side).

No passports were required to watch the torch relay and ceremony at the Peace Arch, which shares its name with the two parks.

Neither the towering figure of Brandon nor that of the Peace Arch uniting Blaine, Wash., with Surrey, British Columbia, is tall enough to bridge that particular border.

If there were protests, they could not be seen or heard from the Peace Arch, a monument at the heart of adjoining state and provincial parks the border between Blaine, Wash., and Surrey, British Columbia.

At the border's western terminus, after it dips into the ocean behind the Peace Arch [5], the line crosses a peninsula before veering south to avoid Vancouver Island — the only place west of Lake of the Woods where Canada extends south of the "49th parallel" border.

But in 2009, when Mr Kabila made peace with his arch-foe Rwanda, the UN lost its pre-eminent role.

MILAN — An audience of fans and lovers of Italian bravura walked through Milan's white Arch of Peace and into a transparent tent with a backdrop of sculpted palm trees.

Let Britannia and Columbia join hands across the Atlantic and their outstretched arms will form a sacred arch of peace which will excite the admiration of the nations, and will proclaim to the world the hope that with God's help the earth shall never more be deluged with blood shed in fratricidal war.

Álvaro Uribe, the former president who led the campaign against accepting the peace plan, congratulated his arch-rival on winning the peace prize, but indicated he would insist on changes to the deal.

Such killings that the Khmer Rouge had committed, argued the peace activist, were of "arch-Quislings who well knew what their fate would be were they to linger in Kampuchea".