Sentence examples for powerful significance from inspiring English sources

This river journey to the heart of the continent takes on a powerful significance, and their working visit to the colony proves vital to both of them.

There are no public celebrations of the fifth today, but as the history of New York's long involvement in slavery becomes better known to New Yorkers through lectures, debates, exhibitions and in discussions about the proper way to memorialize the African Burial Ground, it is fitting to reclaim the powerful significance of July 4 and 5, 1827, as a holiday of freedom for all New Yorkers.

There is no denying that big gifts do carry powerful significance.

Two summers ago, I had an experience I will never forget that shows the powerful significance of the youth movement within Special Olympics.

The "Ngurrara" canvases, he said, were "among the greatest works of indigenous art ever created"; moreover, they had a powerful political significance for the people of the Great Sandy Desert.

Realizing the powerful political significance pertaining to ancient Roman buildings, Jefferson designed his civic buildings in the Palladian style.

In 1977 I never dreamed that one day I would see Martin McGuinness sharing power with Ian Paisley and about to shake hands with the Queen in a gesture of reconciliation that could not be more powerful in its significance for both communities.

Little noticed but powerful in its significance, this position contrasts sharply with the rising chorus of neoconservative voices in Washington calling for Iranian regime change.

Old age should not afford protection to people that committed such heinous crimes," he told AFP. "The trials send a powerful message about the significance of the Holocaust".

Callot's work was often decorative and manneristic; but, at his best, as in the series The Miseries and Misfortunes of War (1632 33), he transcended mere illustration and achieved powerful images of universal significance.

Several winners who took the stage to deliver powerful speeches acknowledged the significance of their triumphs, too.