Sentence examples for program of commemoration from inspiring English sources

"The remarkable increase in youth participation has added an important dimension to our annual program of commemoration," RSL state president Tim Hanna said.

There are about 3 million people of Norwegian background in the U.S. One gets the impression that all will join the entire population of Norway, about 4 million, in a program of commemoration of the arrival in N.Y. of the first group of Norwegian immigrants on Oct. 9, 1825.

But the show was one of a vast program of commemorations — theater, a film festival, conferences, exhibits, even specially concocted Calvinist wines and chocolates — described by some who have tasted them as somewhat bitter — of the birth of John Calvin 500 years ago.

Other kinds of commemoration have been prepared.

Programs for this year's festival had already been planned in October 2010, but it was an easy enough call to include some sort of commemoration of the disasters or benefit for the victims.

This novel is a diffident act of commemoration, necessarily incomplete.

These tokens of commemoration are certainly not a contemporary affectation.

Festivals of commemoration are among the most important of the sacred times.

We'd like to hear what you will be remembering on this national day of commemoration.

Remembrance is more than a dutiful act of commemoration.

He sees it as a new way of commemoration.