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still and stands
More than twenty-four hundred years old, bruised, battered, worn and partially destroyed, combining to an astounding degree solidity and grace, it still stands, incomparable testimony to man's aspiration.
In 1899, Parliament erected a statue to Cromwell in Westminster, facing Whitehall and there, presumably, he still stands.
Time stands still as you climb the narrow, stone stairways in tiny villages clinging to steep mountain slopes or wander through story-book towns, perched atop lofty crags, their faces turned to the sea.
Women actually began to appear unaccompanied in the stands, where they still occasionally ran the risk of coming home with a tobacco-juice stain on a clean skirt or a new curse word tingling their ears.
Time stands still every time Moritz, a 26-year-old Army Signal Corps veteran, goes into the field.
The latter has been shown to be extensively paraphyletic, and has now been divided into 11 subfamilies, but the former still stands.
The house of his birth still stands in the middle of town and there is a monument to him on Front Street.
The huge pine tree that still stands at the top of Doon Hill is said to contain Kirk's imprisoned spirit.
As of September 2012, Charlton's goalscoring record still stands.
Kraus argues that " the whole song stands so near the events that one feels everywhere as if the terrible pictures of the destruction stand still immediately before the eyes of the one lamenting.
" Historian and novelist C. S. Forester, writing in 1929, compared the Nile to the great naval actions in history and concluded that " it still only stands rivalled by Tsu-Shima as an example of the annihilation of one fleet by another of approximately equal material force ".
It still stands at the original site, within the grounds of what is now the Psychiatric Hospital and is open to the public.
In addition, despite the losses, the club saw a home attendance of 4, 483, 350 for the season, setting a Major League record that still stands and isn't likely to be broken.
Young set major league records for the most consecutive scoreless innings pitched and the most consecutive innings without allowing a hit ; the latter record still stands at 25. 1 innings, or 76 hitless batters.
The Merchandise Mart, once first on the list of largest buildings in the world, and still listed as 20th, has its own ZIP code, and stands near the junction of the North and South branches of the Chicago River.
The site of this first cocktail party still stands.
'" While it is sometimes claimed that the Church of Scientology no longer stands by Hubbard's claims that Dianetics can treat physical conditions, it still publishes them: "... when the knee injuries of the past are located and discharged, the arthritis ceases, no other injury takes its place and the person is finished with arthritis of the knee.
The bar where legend says Poe was last seen drinking before his death still stands in Fells Point in Baltimore, Maryland.
This still stands as England's worst ever defeat.
The ancient Buddhist temple of Sensō-ji still stands in Asakusa, marking the center of an area of traditional Shitamachi culture.
Fulham's mother church still stands today with a plaque commemorating the team's foundation.
Cacheu became one of the major slave centers, and a small fort still stands in the town.
As of today, the Law Reform Commission recommendation still stands and has not as yet been acted upon ; the Firearms Act consists of the initial 1925 Act amended by approximately eighteen separate Acts and is well understood by only a handful of those directly involved in its drafting, amendment or usage.

still and monument
Koch accepted the invitation and spent two years, from 1900 to 1902, on the Brijuni Islands and Kupelwieser erected a monument to Koch, which still stands in the vicinity of the 15th-century Church of St. German on Veliki Brijun.
* Place of birth: Mentioned in 2 Kings 14: 25, the town of Gath Hepher has saved its name to this day, near the Gallilean Arab town of Mashhad, where a monument for Nebi Yunes still exists.
When he found out that Cleopatra was still alive, his friends brought him to Cleopatra's monument in which she was hiding, and he died in her arms.
Marcus Aurelius ' Stoic tome Meditations, written in Greek while on campaign between 170 and 180, is still revered as a literary monument to a philosophy of service and duty, describing how to find and preserve equanimity in the midst of conflict by following nature as a source of guidance and inspiration.
This pyramid is considered the largest monument ever constructed anywhere in the world, and is still being excavated.
After being purchased by the neighbouring school it passed on to be property of the French state in 1958, and after surviving several plans of demolition, it was designated as an official French historical monument in 1965 ( a rare occurrence, as Le Corbusier was still living at the time ).
The villa was added to the French register of historical monuments in 1965, becoming the first modernist building designated as historical monument in France, and also the first to be the object of renovation while its architect was still living.
The suffering of Flanders is still remembered by Flemish organizations during the yearly Yser pilgrimage and Wake of the Yser ( the latter associated with Right wing extremists ) in Diksmuide at the monument of The Yser tower.
After the end of World War II national public sentiment was in favor of adding the monument to the park, and though there was still much local opposition, the monument and park were combined in 1950.
He camped at the location of Malborghetto near Prima Porta, where remains of a Constantinian monument in honour of the occasion are still extant.
Other architectural forms that are still in evidence are the processional gateway ( propylon ), the public square ( agora ) surrounded by storied colonnade ( stoa ), the town council building ( bouleuterion ), the public monument, the monumental tomb ( mausoleum ) and the stadium.
The practise was done away with in the 1850s but the monument where the chair stood is still there.
Xerxes II, who reigned for a very short time, could scarcely have obtained so splendid a monument, and still less could the usurper Sogdianus ( Secydianus ).
The funerary cult surrounding this monument, well known in the New Kingdom, was still functioning several generations after its establishment at the temple, leading some scholars to suggest that it may have contained the royal burial chamber of the pharaoh himself.
A great monument of China to this day, the Great Wall still stands, open to the public to challenge its million steps.
The monument can still be seen today, on the cliffs directly in front of the 7: 30 Mine.
His body, says the Mors Pilati (" Death of Pilate "), was thrown first into the Tiber, but the waters were so disturbed by evil spirits that the body was taken to Vienne and sunk in the Rhône: a monument at Vienne, called Pilate's tomb, is still to be seen.
The Johnson Cemetery is still there and is directly above the Monument, which is a limestone marker cut into the side of the old Logansport road, you will need to walk through some over growth to reach the monument.
There still is a cheese museum and a cheese monument in front of the church.
The dry dock is still there and has become a major historical and industrial / archaeological monument.
In 1906, the new church was builton the same location and still stands as a lasting monument to early pioneers.

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