Sentence examples for proper monument from inspiring English sources

There has never been a proper monument to him in Washington -- only a fenced-off statue before the Treasury building and a tiny metal sign, currently bent in half at a 45-degree angle, claiming the forlorn site as Alexander Hamilton Place.

And he has been pressing ceaselessly for a proper monument to Mr. Green -- who did much of his work as chairman of a state commission originally established to create Central Park -- perhaps by renaming in his honor the Washington Bridge, between West 181st Street in upper Manhattan and the Bronx.

In a survey conducted by The Guardian in 2006, Peterloo came second to the Putney Debates as the event from radical British history that most deserved a proper monument or a memorial.

The monument proper, by the Belgian architect Georges Dedoyard, is 40 ft. high, and is like a 5-point modernist star.

The new ordinance, which also outlaws camping or "setting up makeshift beds," will "give monuments back their proper decorum," he said.

Here in England, they have proper Big Things, like statues and monuments, not re-creations.

In order to bring the treatment of historical bronze monuments in line with proper engineering practice and cultural heritage regulations, the standardisation of artificially aged surfaces that are comparable with natural ones is still to take place.

What's the proper adjective for a country whose greatest monuments are cars built like tanks and music that sounds like a mildly melodic lawn strimmer?

This may eventually become a proper site with a clickmap indexing the major monuments: to my 1997 material I expect to be adding stuff from future trips of course.

The proper subject of an Impressionist, Baudelaire said, was not monuments and palaces but tea dances and bars at the Folies-Bergère.

Contrary to the Russian media's allegations, the war graves around the monument have not been desecrated, but exhumed prior to proper reburial; the monument itself was not sawn up, but has already been re-erected nearby, in dignified surroundings.The importance of this goes far beyond Estonia.