Monuments in example sentence

I once travelled 6,000 miles from Chengdu in Western China overland through southeastern Tibet to Lhasa with a young colleague, and it was only when I got to Lhasa that I understood the face behind the statistics you hear about: 6,000 sacred monuments torn apart to dust and ashes, 1.2 million people killed by the cadres during the Cultural Revolution.

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It is time that we start building living monuments to hope and possibility.

Given that it was such a vast civilization, you might expect to find really powerful rulers, kings, and huge monuments glorifying these powerful kings.

This pretty much exempts monuments of the church and state.

But it can't be more lit than the Capitol or some of the monuments.

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