Sentence examples similar to christening itself from inspiring English sources

The space received a makeover in the mid-1980s, re-christening itself as The Sanctuary, before being forced to close in 2008.

Mr. Jay suggested that the Party should re-christen itself Labour and Reform".

One group of Bush lawyers christened itself the Overseas Absentee Ballot Task Force and even had its own letterhead.

Or organizing a chapter that christens itself the Scarlet O'Hatters or Sassy Hattitudes.

The move did not become permanent until 1971 when the team re-christened itself as the Golden State Warriors.

We haven't needed a new name". In fact, if a centre does re-christen itself, it can often have difficulty shaking off the Arndale tag.

(That fictional town is assumed to be in New York, where Seneca Falls has christened itself "the real Bedford Falls," though the set was built on a studio lot in California).

And we will not dwell on the period when Rhode Island christened itself the "Birthplace of Fun" and allowed the tourism division to dot the landscape with 6-foot-tall statues of Mr. Potato Head.

Hotels are even changing their names – the four-diamond Ballantyne Resort in North Carolina recently dropped 'resort' from its title, admitting that it carried a stigma, and re-christened itself the Ballantyne Hotel and Lodge.

The economic havoc that followed the demise of NASA's lunar landing program in 1972 and the Challenger shuttle explosion in 1986 taught Titusville and the rest of the Space Coast, as this strip of Florida breathlessly christened itself in the 1960's, that the space industry was no bedrock.

How many times have I wished that some devious money management outfit would christen itself the Saint Joseph Fund just so investors would be gulled into thinking that the firm was affiliated with the financial wizards at Hawk Hill?