Sentence examples for Renaissance from inspiring English sources

British plans for a nuclear renaissance centred on a nuclear reactor in Somerset achieved a breakthrough when a nine-month European Union state aid investigation ended with a call for Brussels to approve the project.

But the money ran out in the early 1970s, and the renaissance (and most of the British film industry) went south soon after.

However, little did I know that a homebrew renaissance has been building, started by beer aficionados rather than bored middle-aged hobbyists.

Curators helped institutions collect contemporary work and were behind the major trends of that decade: participatory art, installation art and the renaissance of biennials – temporary exhibitions with global tourism mandates, more than 40 of which were inaugurated in that decade alone.

Britain's unique partnership between the private and public sectors in rail has helped create a renaissance in train travel.

There were mutterings of dissent from her "Wets" but nothing to take the shine off an administration that even now is held up as one that heralded renewal and political renaissance in Britain.

Even a renaissance at Man City was short-lived, and he eventually departed for Mexico, the land of legendary golden pyramids lost in the jungles just waiting for a hero to uncover them.

He warns America that it faces a "jihadist renaissance" and speaks of a revenge attack along the lines of "black Tuesday" – al-Qaida's term for the 11 September attacks of 2001.

His statement of principle in the Guardian defined a new morality at the front of the peloton while sideburns and mod fashion enjoyed a summer renaissance as Wiggins crossed over from athlete to icon.

They spent big money on epics filmed in Rome's Cinecittà, and bankrolled a British mini-renaissance after Time magazine's instant mythologisation of Swinging London in its famous 1965 cover story.

Here surely was something to wonder at, this neo-Renaissance figure with a Black Country accent.