Sentences with phrase «see monuments»

The city attracts government workers who may be commuting from suburbs in Virginia or Maryland as well as tourists from across the globe who come to the city to see the monuments and memorials near the National Mall.

Speckled with national parks, bustling cities, natural treasures, and must - see monuments, the Southwest — America's great wide open — is a living postcard.

It's probably the best time to see monuments, honestly.

But Moore said if he wins in the general election, don't expect to see monument return to the judicial building.

If you come to DC, I highly recommend seeing the monuments at night.

The first time I saw the monuments was at night, and I've never ever forgotten it.

It was meanwhile Sir Christopher Wren who said of St Paul's; «If you want to see my monument, look about you.»

KAYAKING Kealakekua Bay is a great way to see the monument and explore the surrounding reef.

Named after the Chinese fishermen who camped here in days past, you can see a monument to China Beach's early residents near the parking area at the end of Sea Cliff Avenue.

Pica's irreverent work saw the monument bathed in a bright yellow light in reference to the misconception, on the part of many Argentineans, that this national monument is yellow due to its depiction as such in school textbooks.

Not exact matches

The site is made up of seven zones of historic monuments and buildings; see how they fared below.

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

Let's see, hmmm, even if I didn't have to pay for it or the cleaning of it with my tax dollars, I would object to any monument to any religion being placed in a public space that I pay to keep clear for my and others use.

The same symbols seen throught the monuments of DC, our money, our school, our cities, etc since the founding of our country.

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.»

Id rather make a monument to the Americans and others who died which we all can support as Americans than see it surrounded by various religious buildings that only some Americans worship in.

This is true of those who see it as an exclusionary inclusion in the museum / monument.

It was very moving to see them light candles and bring flowers to the scenes of the tragedy or to national monuments.

I have seen it in Australia, where the early Afghan immigrants built mosques like monuments, some of which are now museums.

It sees no distinction in adding story to story, upon the monuments of fame erected to the memory of others.

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

Where Mitford saw flowers, monuments and other funereal accessories as needless expenses, Ball considers each as metaphor, symbol, symptom and substance.

at issue was the difference between the manner that the theocracy in Israel (see Samuel 1) was inst ituted (established) vs the 10 commandment monuments.

On the summit of the eastern hill, Koudiat Zarour, and about 300 metres beyond the ramparts, may be seen the remains of a large church, the most interesting monument in the place, the basilica in which was interred St. Salsa.

It's happened to the best of us: You spend a few days somewhere, and then, upon arriving back at the airport, you realize you never saw that monument or ate at that local hot spot that everyone said you needed to visit.

It sits atop the monument with the 75 names like a lightless beacon, sending a beam no one sees.

My goal is to see an enduring monument to the ideals of perseverance, innovation and achievement that my coach, mentor and business partner Bill Bowerman instilled in all his athletes.

At the Training Centre today the club recognise his contribution to Arsenal with a pitch named after him and a suitable monument to the fact, one I have had the pleasure of seeing.

«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.

Shortly before his death, he pointed to the hill just outside Colombey where the monument to his glory was to be built, and said: «no one will come here, and so no - one will see it, it will inspire rabbits to join the Resistance».

People had to spend hours setting up barricades where there are never barricades to prevent people from seeing the World War II monument because they're trying to play a charade

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

For me, one of the most powerful things I have ever seen is the monument erected by the Turks in Gallipoli.

Under fire for defending racist activist groups, President Trump said on Twitter that he was «sad» to see United States» history torn apart by the removal of «our beautiful statues and monuments,» echoing a popular refrain of white supremacist groups that oppose the removal of Confederate monuments.

After Parks Department personnel sawed the statue from its base, a forklift lifted it onto the back of a truck, which transported the monument to Brooklyn.

A family spokesperson said, «after the burial, the family wants a monument to be built anywhere in Ghana on his behalf so that in the future, we use that to remember and that in our lifetime we don't want to see anything of this sort again.»

Maine Gov. Paul LePage (R) is leading the charge to dismantle the state's sole national monument, arguing that the public has seen a reduction in access to the nearly 88,000 - acre site, largely made up of former working timberland.

Saturno didn't see any of the carved stone monuments he was looking for, so he decided to duck into one of the tunnels.

That monument has come under fierce attack these days — from postmodernists (to whom truth is subjective and cultural), from creationists (to whom truth is biblical), and from religion in general (where faith is often seen to compete with reason as the fount of ultimate answers).

Indeed, that the biology business has managed to avoid the truth for all these decades is truly a monument to intellectual lassitude, bureaucratic form - over-content manuscript refereeing («I haven't seen this viewpoint in the National Enquirer yet, so it must be wrong») and institutional ignorance.

The look worked out so well that I wore it all weekend as seen here on our family day out visiting the monuments and then later that evening for our date night.

How amazing to run around the mall and the monuments and see the cherry blossoms each year.

It is a pleasure and privilege to be able to walk through these countless beautiful streets and see all the famous monuments.

I remember the very first time I saw Piazza Venezia, I was so amazed just stared at this huge white monument and I couldn't believe my eyes!

There are plenty of things to do in Athens with your new friends go and see some of the many historical monuments.

In fact, the film starts off with one of the more moving images I have seen in American cinema in which during an unveiling of a statue celebrating America's peace and prosperity, a crowd is stunned to find a homeless man, our tramp, sleeping on the monument.

Rather, he saw the «entire sacred effort» as a way to commune with the monument and the man he began circling more than 50 years ago.

As I was walking into the movie theater to watch The Monuments Men, I asked my friend who was with me a question that had been plaguing me about the movie since I first saw the advertisements: Is this movie supposed to be a comedy, a drama, a war movie, or something in between?

One of the most offbeat and interesting sections involve the perpetually cigar - clutching aristocrat, whose home is a monument to bad taste and who dons a traditional cape to welcome visitors, which features some of the director's wryest images, while the paramedic, who's seen at work and at home, strikes an affecting figure.

Murray will soon be seen alongside George Clooney and Matt Damon in the WWII movie «Monuments Men,» which Sony will release on Dec. 18.