Authority officials and a glee-club-sized contingent of Continental employees stood at attention to listen to speeches commemorating the new name.

Lu Xun's ideas could scarcely have been more distant from the speech commemorating him.

Tuesday's blast took place shortly before Hizbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was due to give a televised speech commemorating the end of the 2006 war.

In a speech commemorating International Space Week, Mr. Luan said China would start with unmanned flights, but he did not offer a timetable.

Zhukov's name was put in the public eye yet again when Brezhnev lionized Zhukov in a speech commemorating the Great Patriotic War.

April 22: United States President Ronald Reagan officially acknowledges the Armenian Genocide in a speech commemorating the Holocaust.

The speeches made that day emphasised that its erection was not only in honour of Burns's genius, but also to commemorate the impact of Scots on Montreal's development.

In a speech commemorating the Vendée Uprising, Solzhenitsyn compared Lenin's Bolsheviks with Jacobins of the French Revolution.