Example collocations logo

Monument in sentence

118 examples of Monument in a sentence

They repeated ad nauseam that the cathedral was constructed as a monument to the victory over Napoleon, the 200th anniversary of which is being commemorated this year.
If it became a symbol, it was of Putin’s new Russia, with its mix of jingoistic nationalism and state religion; so any attack on a monument embodying the unity of church and state under Putin could not go unpunished.
The Court charged the government with failing to investigate the murders properly, and required the government to construct a monument to the victims and compensate families for their loss.
Part of our compulsory tourist program was to pay our respects at his monument – a giant statue of him – in the center of Pyongyang.
I watched rows and rows of uniformed schoolchildren being led to the monument by their teachers.
This discourse has driven some local authorities to build monuments to Stalin and Ivan the Terrible, while the federal authorities have ceremoniously erected a monument to Vladimir the Great, who brought Orthodoxy to Kievan Rus.
Instead of chanting Ho’s name, young Poles put flowers under the monument of Adam Mickiewicz, a nineteenth-century poet whose drama Forefathers Eve , written in praise of the struggle for freedom, had recently been declared subversive and anti-Soviet, and its performance at the National Theater in Warsaw closed down.
It was the only suitable end to the road begun in 1968 under the monument of Mickiewicz.
Liu’s tomb would have become a political monument, an eternal symbol of defiance against autocratic rule.
A monument to Admiral Alexander Kolchak, who led the White effort to overthrow the Bolsheviks, has been erected in Irkutsk, and a monument to Nicholas II has been built in Moscow.
But it will be a monument less to the modest Gandhian it ostensibly honors than to its builder’s overweening ambitions.
But the man himself was never a monument.
Built nearly four centuries ago by the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan as a mausoleum for his beloved wife, the marble monument was hailed by Rabindranath Tagore, India’s only Nobel Prize-winning writer, as “a teardrop on the cheek of Time.”
Declaring that the monument does not “reflect Indian culture,” Adityanath announced that the government would hand out copies of the Hindu holy book, the Bhagavad Gita, instead.
India’s Hindu extremists have long considered it humiliating that a monument built by a Muslim emperor could be Hindu-majority India’s most recognizable site.
Adityanath’s attacks on the Taj, however, have sparked national outrage powerful enough to force him to visit Agra to assure an anxious public that his government is committed to protecting the monument.
Oak’s claim that the monument was originally a Shiva temple named “Tejo Mahalaya.”
Meanwhile, Iran’s unstoppable rush to develop nuclear weapons could prove to be a monument to the international community’s failure to stem the atomic tide in the region.
Today, it endures in the mythology of the Soviet Union chiefly as a monument to collective effort.
Some Russian officials want to unveil a monument Stalin to crown the festivities.
The IOC has become a monument to some of humanity’s worst tendencies – the greed, hypocrisy, and exploitation that have led so many to distrust institutions.
If the restaurant “Pushkin” on Tverskoy Boulevard not far from the monument to the great Russian poet is designed to recreate the “aristocratic atmosphere” of the early nineteenth century, the combined bar and diner called “Gogol” on Stoleshnikov Lane is an attempt to recreate a vanished Soviet institution called “rumochnaia.”
Arabs have long denigrated Israel’s ethnic concept of nationalism, arguing that religion is not a legitimate basis for statehood – as if European countries did not begin as and remain Christian republics for centuries, and as if the Arab countries surrounding Israel were a monument to religious and ethnic diversity.
In 1980, after John Lennon was murdered, a monument to him spontaneously appeared in Prague, and the anniversary of his death was marked by an annual procession for peace and democracy.
“This monument,” the plaque reads, “is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and know what needs to be done.
Stopping the War on ChildrenTHE HAGUE – Over a century after its construction, the Peace Palace in The Hague – home to the International Court of Justice, the Permanent Court of Arbitration, The Hague Academy of International Law, and the Peace Palace Library – stands as a monument to the soaring ambition and dashed hopes of a bygone generation.
But it is also a monument to a vision that the world needs more than ever.
Hamas and Fatah fiercely oppose each other; their reconciliation talks are a monument to mutual insincerity.
The world is a better place as a result of his service, and Packer has now given us a worthy monument to his career and the historical epoch in which he pursued it.
An obvious reason to restore the cathedral is the enjoyment it brings, as an aesthetic and cultural monument, to the 12 million people who visit it each year.
Back