Sentence examples for that it commemorates from inspiring English sources

Lines of all-capital lettering, intended to enhance the cornerstone's formality, may have diminished somewhat the idea that it commemorates people and spirit.

And that it commemorates ordinary people, something so obvious and commonplace that it is taken for granted, but not something that memorials always did.

It's sorta analagous to the 4th of July here in the U.S., in that it commemorates the "birth," so to speak, of the country.

Almost as fucked up as the fact that it commemorates the defeat of Catalan troops by the Spanish in the 18th century.

It has been dated to the late 11th century, and although the interpretation of its message is uncertain, scholars have generally accepted von Friesen's analysis that it commemorates the travels of two Gotlanders to Greece, Jerusalem, Iceland and the Muslim world (Serkland).

The revisionist thinking on Thanksgiving was that it commemorated the subjugation of the Native Americans (formerly the Indians).

The monument's purpose was unfixed, though there were those who imagined, erroneously, that it commemorated the tragic sinking of a Thames pleasure cruiser, which was much on people's minds at the time.

Across the congressional aisle, other critics mocked the U.N. leader's name not realizing that it commemorated an Egyptian prime minister assassinated by Islamic extremists.

In 1982, at a time of high racial tension following the Toxteth riots, his memorial in Liverpool was pulled down by a group of local people in the mistaken belief that it commemorated a slave trader; it was re-erected around 20 years later in Duke Street, near where he had stayed for his final nights in Liverpool.

Saturday's concert will celebrate that life as it commemorates the 20th anniversary of the Walkabout Clearwater Coffeehouse.

To commemorate that, it is taking 30percentt off regular rates.