Sentence examples for could be reclaimed from inspiring English sources

To increase usable acreage, Olmsted drained marshes with pipes, which taught him wetlands could be reclaimed.

It also meant that the center could be reclaimed, or at least shared, by the natives.

Initially, some thought, or hoped, that a Democratic majority in the Solid South could be reclaimed.

Such words could be reclaimed and used proudly against those who would use them pejoratively, a female participant suggested.

Alok Mathur, a project manager at the Remote Sensing Application Center of Uttar Pradesh, said farmland could be reclaimed by simply pouring gypsum on it.

When the association devised the NC-17 rating in 1990, it was thought that the "adult" film could be reclaimed from the grunge purveyors.

Dressing as a clown feels likes it's winking at the in-joke, that fashion could be reclaiming its eccentricity and the clown collar is semaphore for this shift.

He said up to £9bn could now be reclaimed by bank customers.

The sugar had got wet in a flood and couldn't be reclaimed for human use, so they sold it to apiarists in Wyoming and Idaho.

On mainstream television (Newsnight) the Conservative MP Louise Bagshawe said that the word "slut" could never be reclaimed, would always be a horrible word, because it "lionised promiscuity".

Early in her campaign to repeal the Contagious Diseases Act, Butler was asked by a man: "Can you ever reclaim prostitutes?" She replied that prostitutes often came to her and asked if men could ever be reclaimed.