Centenary Sentence Examples

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  • Durrett, The Centenary of Louisville (Louisville, 1893), being No.

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  • The centenary of Wesley's death was kept in 1891.

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  • In celebration of the centenary of the Church, a fund of £250,000 was launched in 1 9 07, and this was brought to a successful issue.

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  • The centenary of Gioberti called forth several monographs in Italy.

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  • To celebrate the centenary of Moore's birth in 1898, John Hedgecoe prepared this highly personal yet highly authoritative book.

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  • In 1978, at the time of the centenary celebrations, the original pews were replaced with more flexible modern chairs.

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  • However, in 2005, the journal published an additonal issue to celebrate the society's centenary.

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  • The festival will mark the first centenary of Morley Library.

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  • We are coming up to the double centenary of the abolition of Britain's participation in the slave trade.

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  • The exhibition celebrates centenary of Dhaka regaining the status of a capital city on 16 October 1905.

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  • County Hall marks centenary Tuesday 31 January 2006 The imposing Grade II* listed County Hall building in Northallerton is 100 years old today.

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  • The Princes ' visit was to mark the supposed centenary of the company - in fact the company was already 104 years old!

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  • The cover of the 100th anniversary commemorative booklet published on the centenary in 1996.

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  • Every floor of Centenary has a fire marshal whose job is to check and clear areas of persons.

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  • Being part of the centenary jamboree and supporting participants from over 200 countries is something not to be missed.

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  • Laburnum pilot was launched on Saturday 26 June during a Street party to celebrate the Centenary of Haggerston Baths on laburnum pilot was launched on Saturday 26 June during a Street party to celebrate the Centenary of Haggerston Baths on Laburnum Street.

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  • An event to commemorate this milestone in the project's development is being planned later in this the centenary year of Anthony Asquith.

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  • All of which leaves the centenary Tour delicately poised.

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  • He died at Göttingen on the 23rd of February 1855 The centenary of his birth was celebrated (1877) at his native place, Brunswick.

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  • For many years Quinet received little attention in France, but it was revived, though not very strongly, by the publication in 1899 of Madame Quinet's Cinquante ans d'amitie (that between her husband and Michelet), and by the centenary of his birth.

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  • Steve was awarded the Centenary Medal in 2001 in honor of his outstanding service to global conservation and Australian tourism.

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  • Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi and Gustave Eiffel (yep, the same guy who built the Eiffel tower), built and sent the Statue of Liberty to the United States in honor of America's centenary of independence.

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  • The centenary of Methodism was kept in 1839, a hundred years after the society first met at the Foundery.

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  • In 1875 he attended the Bunker Hill centenary at Boston, Mass., and delivered a remarkable address.

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  • Thus in 1907 at the Centenary Conference in Shanghai, when many topics were discussed centring in the question of the native Chinese Church, a general declaration of faith and purpose was adopted, which, after setting out the things held in common, proceeded, " We frankly recognize that we differ as to methods of administration and of church government; that some among us differ from others as to the administration of baptism; and that there are some differences as to the statement of the doctrine of predestination, or the election of grsce.

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  • He died at Göttingen on the 23rd of February 1855 The centenary of his birth was celebrated (1877) at his native place, Brunswick.

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  • The centenary of his birth in 1904 was celebrated by a flood of articles in the newspapers and magazines, naturally coloured by the new controversy in England over the Tariff Reform movement.

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  • These little papers, rapidly thrown off for a temporary purpose, were destined to form a very important ' The centenary of the Edinburgh Review was celebrated in an article in October 1902, and that of the Quarterly Review in two articles April and July 1909.

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  • Directed Ten Days To Be Suppressed In The Calendar; And As The Error Of The Julian Intercalation Was Now Found To Amount To Three Days In 400 Years, He Ordered The Intercalations To Be Omitted On All The Centenary Years Excepting Those Which Are Multiples Of 400.

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  • On The Other Hand, As The Golden Numbers Were Only Adapted To The Julian Calendar, Every Omission Of The Centenary Intercalation Would Require Them To Be Placed One Line Lower, Opposite The 6Th, For Example, Instead Of The 5Th Of The Month; So That, Generally Speaking, The Places Of The Golden Numbers Would Have To Be Changed Every Century.

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  • The Centenary of the Missionary Society falls in 1913, but Methodist Missions really date from 1786 when Dr Coke landed at Antigua.

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  • A grant of £5000 was made from the Centenary Fund for the provision of Wesleyan day-schools.

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  • In one of the public squares stands the Austrian monument, executed by Pekary and erected in 1875 to commemorate the centenary of Austria's possession of Bukovina.

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  • The closing years of the 19th century were remarkable for the centenary commemorations of the older missionary societies.

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  • Relations with Great Britain, however, remained far from cordial until the celebration of the fourth centenary of Vasco da Gama's voyage to India, afforded the opportunity for a rapprochement in 1898.

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  • The centenary of the New Church as a spiritual system was celebrated in 1857, as an external organization in 1883.

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  • Carrara erected a statue to his memory in 1876, and in 1887 the Societe d'economie politique celebrated his centenary with a notice of his life and works.

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  • Much general comment on Moses Mendelssohn appeared in the press of the world on occasion of the centenary of the birth of the composer Mendelssohn in 1909.

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  • In the forefront of the new movement are to be found men like Yoneharu Unkai and Shinkai Taketaro; the former chiselled a figure of Jenner for the Medical Association of Japan when they celebrated the centenary of the great physician, and the latter has carved life-size effigies of two Imperial princes who lost their lives in the war with China (1894 95).

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  • In Ireland the Hibernian Bible Society (originally known as the Dublin Bible Society) was founded in 1806, and with it were federated kindred Irish associations formed at Cork, Belfast, Derry, &c. The Hibernian Bible Society, whose centenary was celebrated in 1906, had then issued a total of 5,713,837 copies.

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  • The Baptist Society celebrated its centenary in 1892; the London Missionary Society (Congregational) did the same in 1895; the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge kept its bicentenary in 1898; the Church Missionary Society its centenary in 1899; the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel its bicentenary in 1900-1901; and the British and Foreign Bible Society its centenary in 1904.

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  • In 1910 he was special American ambassador to the centenary celebration of Argentine independence.

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  • A great struggle took place on the centenary of the battle of Plassey (June 23), and another on the 25th of August; but on both occasions the mutineers were repulsed with heavy loss.

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  • Lord Carrington, who was appointed governor in 1888, opened the railway to Queensland, and during the same year the centenary of the colony was celebrated.

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  • Ward, then began to work on commissions, and at the age of twenty-three received from the town of Concord, Massachusetts, an order for his well-known statue "The Minute Man," which was unveiled (April 19, 1875) on the centenary of the battle of Concord.

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  • At the centenary show in 1898 provision was made for 40 classes for cattle, 29 for sheep, 18 for pigs, and 7 for animals to be slaughtered, whilst to mark the importance of the occasion the prizes offered amounted to close upon 5000 in value.

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  • Of prize sheep at the centenary show the largest average daily gain was o.

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  • In1865-1866he was chairman of the central committee for the celebration of the centenary of American Methodism.

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  • The centenary of the landing of Shortland was celebrated in 1897, when a monument commemorating the event was erected.

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  • Messages of congratulation came from the rulers of every Protestant nation in Christendom, and a centenary thanksgiving fund of 250,000 guineas was raised for extending the society's work.

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  • Under Vitelleschi, the next general, the Society celebrated its first centenary on the 25th of September 1639, the hundredth anniversary of the verbal approbation given to the scheme by Paul III.

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  • The centenary festival in 1904 was celebrated with enthusiasm by the Reformed Churches and their foreign missions throughout the world.

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