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Example sentences for: commemoration

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In Canada, the National Post reported Thursday on a commemoration ceremony for the 229 people who died last Sept. 2 when Swissair Flight 111 crashed in St. Margaret's Bay, Nova Scotia.
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.
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.
In going each year to the cemetery, we place a stone on the monument, in commemoration of the acts of Joshua and Samuel in giving praise to the Lord.
But it added that Germany remains exposed to "the perpetual and human temptation of nationalism" and has a duty to join in the commemoration.