Sentences with phrase «to honor the dead»

A funeral is to honor the dead not their politics or anything else.

And how can researchers strike an ideal balance between honoring the dead and gathering knowledge for future generations?

Do you believe his remarks about honoring the dead and their families?

Throughout the month, while the observant honor the dead in more traditional ways, he awakens night after night to dreams of Julia and spends his days pursuing leads and independently investigating her shocking death.

In an email interview with Mashable, she praises people who honor the dead by celebrating that person's memories and accomplishments on Facebook.

Clark and his fellow ex-Highlanders work in part to honor the dead of Bulawayo — men such as the former star of the Zimbabwean national team who was refused service by bank tellers because of the stigma of AIDS, and the ex-player who trained as one of Grassroot Soccer's first coaches only to die before he could work with kids.

This is our day for honoring the dead.

Russell Crowe's feature directorial debut, «The Water Diviner,» stems from an honest impulse to dramatize ordinary people who honor their dead.

Popular songs in the coming months may mourn and honor the dead at Charleston's Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, but will any star cry truth the way Nina Simone might have?

So, could we simply honor the dead and their families by quietly giving a thought, saying a prayer, tossing a flower, rather than turning every single tragedy into an opportunity to make Our Faith front and center?

What!?!? I really can not find something wrong with religious leaders that wish to solemnly and respectfully honor the dead.

Throughout it all, the production honors the dead in a spooky and entertaining way.

Yes, county lawmakers do less, and passing a law a year but hundreds of resolutions honoring the dead and living is as laughable as it is inexcusable.

Dia de los Muertos, the multi-day Mexican - originated holiday honoring dead family members and friends, proves to have a remarkably revitalizing effect on Pixar, as evidenced by the truly resplendent Coco.

It's no surprise that my Goth friends and I are interested in how different cultures honor their dead.

The offerings at this monument honor these dead.

New York City based emerging artist Selva Aparicio employed taxidermy with sensitivity and subtlety to honor dead animals and criticize our society's disregard for them during her one - night pop - up show, curated by Ara Cho, at Space 776.

Through images and testimonials, Abergil's project honors the dead while at the same time giving voice to a community of survivors who keep memory alive as they strive to rebuild their lives in the aftermath of loss.

The film combines documentary footage of actual funeral processions along with vivid re-enactments; the film is a poetic rumination on death and the ways in which the living honor the dead.

The temperature scale you are looking for is the Rankine scale, which is the scale that begins at absolute zero for the Fahrenheit scale as the Kelvin scale does for Celsius (which used to be the centigrade scale until «scientists» felt the need to honor a dead guy no one had heard of.)

HOW DARE THEY WANT TO HONOR THE DEAD BY REFLECTING WHAT THEY BELIEVED WHILE ALIVE.

A large mammoth made of cement, standing in a natural landscape, creates an uncanny relationship between the organic and the artificial (or testifies to our ways of preserving history and honoring the dead in order to conquer our own fears of mortality and being forgotten).

I understand your feeling of rage but if he were made part of a structure dedicated to honoring our dead, would his ashes not desanctify that somber place?

But the footprint cavities, waterfalls, and panels of names themselves «honor the dead,» and they are by far the most conspicuous element of the memorial complex.

Regardless of the revitalization going on aboveground, this part of the site had to be maintained to honor the dead.

The had to exhume a bunch of cemeteries and had no place for the bones, so they wanted to honor the dead by incorporating them as part of the church.

The best way to honor the dead is to use sybols they, themselves, would approve of, not what YOU want or approve of.

Ancestor worship, I suspect, began as a good effort to remember and honor the dead, to pass on the family history to the children.

Even if it is to honor the dead or even Jesus Christ.

It has nothing to do with candy or sweets, but is a day to honor the dead and to commune with those who have passed before us.

It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us - that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion - that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.»

UPPER WEST SIDE — With the 112 - year - old Soldiers» and Sailor's Monument looming in the background and hundreds of uniformed military members and civilians before him, Mayor Bill de Blasio spoke of honoring the dead and fighting for better care of veterans during a Memorial Day service.

Employing religious discourse in 2001 — in contrast to the governmental rhetoric of «human remains as «evidence»» — the King requested that the remains of the Khmer Rouge victims be cremated in Khmer Buddhist tradition to honor the dead and allow their spirits to be reincarnated.

There are some gracious sentiments about how to honor the dead.

Despite a slow start overflowing with exposition about the meaning of Día de los Muertos — the annual celebration to honor the dead — «Coco» finds its groove with the story of Miguel Rivera (Anthony Gonzalez), a spirited 12 - year - old, who makes music everywhere he goes.

But while they honor the dead, they concentrate on celebrating the living.

Fitted for Eternity It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Having saddled itself with an impossible set of questions, «How do we honor the dead, and when do we let go?»

Isn't this festival to honor the dead?

It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

The restings performed by the gracekeepers are part of a rich cultural tradition to bury and honor the dead.

Instead, I wanted to honor the dead by leaving a fuller account of what they endured and all that they and their descendants lost.

Settlers have a policy of building in the location where acts of violence against them happen, to remember & honor the dead.

Ancestral traditions run deep here — villagers still practice their ancient Marapu religion, building megalithic tombs right alongside their houses to honor their dead and the spirits.

Burial at sea for loved ones is an ancient tradition that honors the dead and brings closure by creating a loving and lasting connection with the sea.

Also available are the city of Shimmerene, known as the City of Lights, and the Crystal Tower, a place of research, mysterious purpose, and a mausoleum for the honored dead.

Each of you pretends that you're there to honor the dead, but you're not fooling anyone.

Mausoleums to honor the dead.

Also called All Souls Day, it is an occasion marked by festive celebration to honor the dead.

I guess we honored the dead in our own way, so I guess now as an adult I'm learning more about Day of the Dead and I feel like I'm learning more about myself.