Sentences with phrase «greater monument»

What greater monument can we give to those who were hurt so much in the past than fundamental constitutional law that will never let it happen again?

Lady Liberty is generally recognized as America's greatest monument.

The poet Shelley, in his «Ozymandias,» tells of a traveler who, in an ancient land, saw the ruins of a once great monument.

Now, using subatomic particles raining down from the heavens, a team of physicists has found a previously unknown cavity within Khufu's great monument.

Simon ambles past many of the city's great monuments and places of interest, but he seems uninterested by them.

Along the way, they stop off at Rushmore where the cantankerous Woody hysterically riffs on America's great monument («It doesn't look finished to me») before then misplacing his teeth along, yet another, set of railroad tracks.

The greatest monument to love on Earth.

Judging the Icon category of the Wanderlust Travel Photo of the Year, we see many creative images of some of the world's great monuments.

At Great Rail Journeys, many of our tours visit these prestigious sites, allowing you the opportunity to explore some of the world's greatest monuments, landscapes and cities.

Being one of the hotels near Polonnaruwa, we can arrange, upon request, a city tour for you to visit some of its greatest monuments that portray influences of the Chola invasion in 2nd BCE.

Check out a number of great monuments such as «Edinburgh's disgrace», the unfinished National Monument which was built to remember casualties of the Napoleonic war.

With so many scenic streets in cities across the globe, some cutting straight through modern metropolises bordered by towering skyscrapers, others following ancient winding paths in the shadow of great monuments, determining which of all is prettiest might seem an impossible task.

Will our great monuments of information in the form of written communication amaze and puzzle future scholars?

Not exact matches

Sad to see the history and culture of our great country being ripped apart with the removal of our beautiful statues and monuments.

Last year, when several cities were taking actions to remove Confederate monuments, Pres. Trump tweeted, «Sad to see the history and culture of our great country being ripped apart with the removal of our beautiful statues and monuments.»

Raimundo Panikkar in his great collection of Vedic texts for modern man or woman called The Vedic Experience, whilst recognising that the Vedas are «linked for ever to the particular religious sources from which they historically sprang», also says that the Vedas are a monument of universal religion and therefore of deep significance for all people.

The KJV is a fine monument to what Ian Gordon P The Movement of English Prose calls «great public spoken prose.»

The Sphinx and the Pyramids still stand, in the midst of dirt and sordidness, as monuments to a great past.

Chiefly, of course, the churches and other architectural monuments erected after the great fire of London in 1666.

When one looks at the most beautiful or historically important buildings in the World, they tend to be religious monuments — the pyramids of Egypt and Mesoamerica, the great cathedrals of Europe, Spilt Blood and St. Isaacs in Saint Petersburg, the Greek and Roman temples, the Taj Mahal, the Wots of Asia, even the modern Mormon temples in Salt Lake City and the like.

Those who shudder at inscriptions on monuments or passages in history books which refer simply to «the Great War» or «the World War» — written as though what we call World War I would indeed prove to be «the war to end war» — will feel saddened to read her portentous observation that «we have no guarantee that it will not recur.»

In praise of the Great Flying Spaghetti Monster I have erected a monument to the fallen consisting of 12 meat balls on a plate of pure virgin noodles.

The great cathedrals have become historic monuments to a past age, chiefly of interest to tourists.

The Republic of Turkey has recognized that the waqfs constitute a great part of the national fortune of the country and has undertaken a careful administration of waqf funds, even founding a bank to care for the funds and use the income for the care and preservation of historical mosques and monuments, many of which are now being restored.

Not all the Bible is great literature, and the Bible is more than a literary monument; still, an appreciation of its literary merits is in order.

Sadly, most of the debate is anchored in an analysis that freights these bronze statues with the racial politics of our own time — rather than considering the motives of those who raised Confederate monuments in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, during the great period of Civil War memorialization.

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It was also the belief of the Babylonians and As - syrians, as their monuments testify, for a figure of a guardian angel now in the British Museum once decorated an As - syrian palace, and might well serve for a modern representation; while Nabopolassar, father of Nebuchadnezzar the Great, says: «He (Marduk) sent a tutelary deity (cherub) of grace to go at my side; in everything that I did, he made my work to succeed.»

Best viewing of the monuments ever... and great company.

In the United States, Mount Rushmore is a mountain on which the faces of four of the greatest and most iconic American Presidents — George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt — have their faces carved as a monument to their legacy.

«My greatest experience here in Washington, DC was, first of all, seeing all the beautiful monuments that are here, and second, working with all the students who have been working really hard to change the way students eat in the cafeteria,» student chef Cesar Amezcua says.

Egypt doesn't want people dying by falling off the pyramids, and they also don't want a bunch of tourists screwing up monuments that have stood for thousands of years, so climbing the Great Pyramid is punishable by up to three years in prison.

Whether it's a visit to a monument, nature trail or community park, exploring the great outdoors is a healthy activity for both you and your little ones.

As Texas Solicitor General, I had the great honor of successfully defending the #TenCommandments monument that still...

Sad to see the history and culture of our great country being ripped apart with the removal of our beautiful statues and monuments.

Governor Ambode, who was represented at the commissioning by his Special Adviser on Tourism, Arts and Culture Hon. Adebimpe Akinsola, described the statue as a monument of great value that describes the passion Lagosians and Nigerians bestow upon sports and football in particular.

On the 10th anniversary of the dedication of the Westchester Great Hunger Memorial, County Executive Robert P. Astorino and James Houlihan, who led efforts to create the monument, will lay a wreath at the Irvington site to commemorate the occasion, as well as to focus attention on the issues of hunger past and present.

The grandest culture north of the Maya created a city of 20,000 people, built monuments rivaling Egypt's Great Pyramid, then vanished into oblivion

Mystery void is discovered in the Great Pyramid of Giza High - energy particles from space called cosmic rays helped scientists uncover a previously unknown cavity inside one of the world's oldest and largest monuments (SN Online: 11/2/17).

With each looted archaeological site, robbed museum, exploded monument or burned archive, we lose data on the world's earliest - known agriculture, settled communities, organized religions, state - level polities, writing systems and great empires.

Great care must be taken when shaping the stones that form the footings of a monument.

One of Egypt's most famous monuments, the Great Sphinx of Giza, has been «resculpted» in a computer.

A detour to the west would take you to the Very Large Array, one of the world's greatest radio observatories and a monument to a starkly different application of World War II — derived technology.

The nomination will now be formally assessed by the International Council of Sites and Monuments before the World Heritage Committee decides whether it will join the likes of The Great Barrier Reef, the Taj Mahal and the Great Wall of China as a designated World Heritage Site.

Involved in all aspects of the city's growth and capital improvements over the years, Columbia engineers have been responsible for the design, analysis, and maintenance of New York's enormous infrastructure of municipal services and communications links, as well as its great buildings, bridges, tunnels, and monuments.

Our great societies, with all their cities and technological advances, are monuments to the seemingly unfailing prowess of the intellect.

The theft of Europe's great art treasures in also depicted in The Monuments Men.

«The Monuments Men» is more «Leatherheads» than «Good Night, and Good Luck»; a stark reminder that although Clooney is capable of directing a great movie, he's much better in front of the camera than behind it.

The Monuments Men - December 18 A Great - Escape style war epic starring Matt Damon, Cate Blanchett, George Clooney, Bill Murray, and John Goodman.

Focusing on the eleven - month period between D - Day and V - E Day, this fascinating account follows six Monuments Men and their impossible mission to save the world's great art from the Nazis.