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Cenotaph
Definition:
(n.) An empty tomb or a monument erected in honor of a person who is buried elsewhere.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sunday's remembrance ceremony at the Cenotaph in Whitehall did not offer much in the way of opportunities for error.
(2) His critics have variously attacked him for not bowing low enough at the cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday , appearing not to sing the national anthem at a service and “snubbing” the Rugby World Cup opening ceremony by turning down an invitation to attend.
(3) "The Remembrance Sunday Service at the Cenotaph has always contained prayers and readings from scripture, and the fact that it continues to be so central a part of our public life would suggest that it is meeting people's pastoral needs," said the Venerable Peter Eagles, archdeacon for the army.
(4) This year, as on every other anniversary, the names of survivors – the hibakusha – who died in the previous 12 months will be added to the peace park’s cenotaph.
(5) There was the Cenotaph resplendent, spotlessly clean.
(6) Kazuaki Naka, who organised the service at Koyasan temple, said more than 200 people had gathered at the cenotaph “to console the souls of war dead, who sacrificed their lives for their home country, whether their executions were fair or unfair”.
(7) Part of the problem is that Japan is reluctant to apologise for its own wartime atrocities, which makes it more difficult to demand an apology from someone else.” Mayor Matsui would not be drawn on the prospects of a visit by Obama or Kerry to the Hiroshima peace park, whose cenotaph contains the names of every person to have died in connection to the bombing.
(8) A secular campaigner has called for the Church of England to abandon its role in the annual Remembrance ceremony at the Cenotaph in London, claiming it no longer represents the views and beliefs of the majority of Britons.
(9) November 8, 2015 Grenville Wilson (@GBHeritage) Corbyn's bow at the Cenotaph was virtually nonexistent, more of a twitch, obviously a deliberate snub November 8, 2015 Others were quick to claim that the rightwing media and Conservative supporters had leaped on the footage to politicise the Remembrance Sunday service.
(10) A branch of McDonald's was attacked, a statue of Winston Churchill was given a grass Mohican, and the Cenotaph was graffitied.
(11) At the evening meeting of the parliamentary Labour party, Corbyn faced pointed calls to clarify his position on Europe, Nato, Trident and possible airstrikes in Syria – and even whether he would wear a white poppy at the Cenotaph.
(12) I looked out the window and saw a shooter, a man dressed all in black with a kerchief over his nose and mouth and something over his head as well, holding a rifle and shooting an honour guard in front of the cenotaph point-blank, twice,” a witness, Tony Zobl, told the Canadian Press news agency.
(13) The show has already proved controversial after LeBlanc and rally driver Ken Block were filmed doing “doughnuts” close to London’s Cenotaph.
(14) The Thiepval Memorial, the largest in the world and designed, like the Cenotaph in London, by Sir Edwin Lutyens, carries the names of 72,000 people killed but buried in unmarked graves.
(15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Former president Jimmy Carter, pictured with Hiroshima mayor Takeshi Araki, places a wreath at the memorial cenotaph during a visit in 1984.
(16) Sinn Féin has previously boycotted November's remembrance events in Northern Ireland owing to the association with the British military, although past mayors have laid wreaths at the city hall cenotaph to mark the 1 July anniversary of the battle of the Somme.
(17) In November, the People’s History Museum in Manchester, home to an archive of Labour party history, made tentative inquiries into acquiring the Ed Stone for its collection – which includes the coat Michael Foot wore at the cenotaph in 1981 – but those they spoke to in the party denied any knowledge of the monument’s fate.
(18) Top Gear: Chris Evans says Cenotaph stunt should not be broadcast Read more The clip also features former Friends star LeBlanc driving a Reliant three-wheeler from London to Blackpool and a Dodge Viper ACR with a Browning machine-gun attached to its roof being driven at a military base in Nevada.
(19) The Irish government has been asked to lay a wreath at London’s Cenotaph on Remembrance Day for the first time.
(20) But then how would we feel if Moscow or Singapore or Tehran condemned the treatment of Cenotaph protesters?