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Example sentences for: commemorating

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In the street adjacent is a stone tablet commemorating a tragedy: During an Easter procession in 1844, the collapse of a wall killed 414 people.
The IRS firestorm leads at USA Today , the New York Times , and the Los Angeles Times . At the Washington Post , the lead national story is President Clinton's appearance at ceremonies commemorating the 40th anniversary of the forced integration of Central High in Little Rock.
Farther north along the coast, just south of the small town of Aguada, is a monument commemorating the landing of Cristóbal Colón on the island in 1493.
A piece commemorating the 50 th anniversary of the Marshall Plan notes that while it was a noble idea, it also had a political purpose: to prevent Soviet domination of Europe.
In 1960, Penderecki exploded the lyrical associations of the string orchestra in his Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima for 52 stringed instruments, a brutal piece commemorating an act of violence.