Sentence examples for what a memorial from inspiring English sources

"We are defining what a memorial is".

"Now she has an understanding of what a memorial can do for her and now she wants to do that for him," Ms. Staub said.

Maya Lin, the designer of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and one of 13 jurors in the World Trade Center competition, challenged entrants to come up with "a new way of defining what a memorial can be".

The task proceeded, Mr. Voorsanger said, without any preconceptions on the emotion-charged question of what a memorial would eventually look like, or even if it would include any of the salvaged items, the most striking of which is the ghastly but elegant facade of the north tower.

"I see us at an impasse about understanding what a monument or a memorial is all about," she said.

One first world war memorial, not far from the 7 July sculptures, suggests what a "speaking" memorial could be: the Royal Artillery memorial, designed by CF Jagger and Lionel Pearson.

Nor is what gets remembered the same as what gets a memorial.

Commissioned by Tito to commemorate second world war battle sites, they tear down traditional ideas of what a war memorial should be.

What a fitting memorial it would be to all of these dads, and moms, for American corporations to provide this type of flexibility to all their employees, and to encourage them to use it.

The Irish Hunger Memorial opening today on the edge of the Hudson River near Manhattan's southern tip could be New York City's equivalent of the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington, an unconventional work of public art that strikes a deep emotional chord, sums up its artistic moment for a broad audience and expands the understanding of what a public memorial can be.

"At some point I think the city needs to gain control [or] purchase the Pulse site and then make some determination, with a lot of input, on what a permanent memorial might look like," Mayor Buddy Dyer said in a radio interview Wednesday.