Sentence examples for thousands of statues from inspiring English sources

Thousands of statues of a former dictator were erected across Taiwan.

The move, aimed at reconciling Protestants to Catholicism's devotion to the Blessed Virgin, exemplified in thousands of statues in churches and shrines across the world, cuts across one of the more arcane disputes between the two churches, but is likely to alarm some evangelicals and conservatives.

Highlights include participating in a kung-fu class at the legendary Shaolin temple and a trip to see the Terracotta Warriors, thousands of statues dating to 210 B.C. Cooking and calligraphy courses are also offered along the way.

Of the many thousands of statues produced during the period in which Greek art flourished, not more than a few dozen survive, and those mostly mutilated.

As I peered at the thousands of statues decorating the tower, pilgrims streamed into the compound, many going into the inner sanctum to be blessed by the priests and to gaze on the 10-foot-tall black lingam.

In the process, he expanded the reach of Syria's security forces and created a Soviet-style cult of personality for himself, commissioning thousands of statues, portraits and posters to be displayed across the country.

Hundreds of statues went up across the US between the 1890s and 1950s.

In the metropolitan area he has documented hundreds of statues in alcoves and grottos on lawns and also the sidewalk altars that are briefly erected on city streets for a saint's feast day.

There are John Paul II museums in Kraków and Warsaw, hundreds of statues all over Poland, countless books on his life (which are more bought than read) as well as movies and plays about him.

They've placed statuary, actual copies of the ancient statuary that would have been at the Villa of the Papyri; because hundreds of statues from the Villa of the Papyri have survived, and they have–you can see them all at the Getty.

Leonard Zeskind, activist and author of Blood and Politics, a history of white nationalism in the US, says the purpose of the hundreds of statues erected around the turn of the century was "to rewrite who won the war", in order to justify Jim Crow.