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Example sentences for: commemoration

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Recalling that only one member of Netanyahu's government--former Soviet dissident Nathan Sharansky--attended last year's commemoration of Rabin, it expressed hope that the prime minister would attend this year's ceremonies.
But it added that Germany remains exposed to "the perpetual and human temptation of nationalism" and has a duty to join in the commemoration.
In commemoration of the 600 th anniversary of the great battle, in 1989 Lazar's bones were taken for a tour around Serbia and Bosnia, from monastery to monastery.
In another front-page editorial, La Stampa criticized the new German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder for canceling the Nov. 8 commemoration in France of World War I. The paper said it is understandable that Schröder's generation should want to lift from itself blame that doesn't belong to it.
Readers are invited to nominate events suitable for commemoration in Chatterbox's "year in review" item, which Chatterbox would like to post before Thanksgiving (in order to beat all the various century/millennium/decade-in-review surveys).