Sentence examples for preserved monument from inspiring English sources

The red imitation-leather bag stuffed with clubs is propped up in the hallway cupboard, a lovingly preserved monument to a sporting dream that has finally died.

Stela 51 is the best preserved monument at Calakmul.

Stela 1 is the best preserved monument at Akte.

Stela 8 is a well preserved monument on the south side of Structure A-3.

But for now and the foreseeable future, the site figures to sit — revolutionary ghosts underground, mall across the street, traffic zipping up and down Route 9 — not a preserved monument, but not a paved-over memory either.

Today it is a preserved monument open to the public.

They tell a greater truth about fragility and time than perfectly preserved monuments.

Some efforts to preserve monuments become the very cause of the problem.

Construction, demolition, and reconstruction go on almost ceaselessly, though increasing thought has been given to preserving monuments and buildings.

As well as advising on counter-insurgency tactics, they have helped with an array of non-military activities, from overseeing elections to preserving monuments and digging sewers.

These essays examine the global struggle to build a collective memory of the past by preserving monuments and artifacts, a quest complicated by varying cultural ideas about authenticity, and about the role of libraries, computers and literacy itself.