Sentence examples for water in memory from inspiring English sources

He shows the same devotion to saghakhanehs, small niches in walls offering passersby drinking water in memory of Imam Hussein, who with his followers was cut off from water before his martyrdom at the battle of Kerbala in AD680.

After five weeks patrolling African waters for pirates and participating in exercises with the British and German navies, it would reach a position in the English Channel just south of the Isle of Wight, where it would lay a life buoy decorated with flowers on the water in memory of the S.S. Mendi, a passenger steamer that sank there in 1917.

Pope Francis threw a wreath into the water in memory of the many illegal immigrants who have died trying to cross the Mediterranean to Europe.

Cyprus faces the worst water shortage in memory.

A 1919 proposal for a water gate in memory of Theodore Roosevelt did not mention the earlier proposals.

From the deck of an aircraft carrier turned tourist attraction on a sunny, humid Memorial Day morning, Sandy Alderson stepped forward to share in the dropping of a ceremonial wreath into the water below in memory of those who had served aboard the decommissioned ship.

The Jenna Lynn entered the circle and relatives of some of the 36 local men who have died at sea over the past 80 years dropped an anchor made out of flowers onto the water in their memory.

To make amends, Karna was permitted to return to earth for a 15 day period, so that he could perform Shraddha and donate food and water in their memory.

Mr. Lamb helped make the instruments he played in Tan Dun's "Concerto for Water Percussion and Orchestra in Memory of Toru Takemitsu," performed by the Philharmonic in 1999.

Downtown business owners, children and pets march to a spot beneath the Brooklyn Bridge and pour buckets of water into the East River in memory of Hurricane Sandy.

Even more than Mr. Tan's "Concerto for Water Percussion and Orchestra in Memory of Toru Takemitsu," presented by Kurt Masur and the New York Philharmonic in 1999, this seems an unlikely enterprise.