Sentence examples for first to revive from inspiring English sources

Beatrice's new Homestead Act is not the first to revive the land giveaway.

Big Brother is a sensation - but on Channel 4. BBC1 was first to revive daytime soaps, with Doctors.

Courtney Love's band mates in Hole were probably the first to revive them, in long ago 1998.

"He was among the first to revive the wet plate process, and no one has been doing it continuously longer or better".

We need to pass power downwards in order, first, to revive democracy, second, to break up this overbearing state and, third, to deliver diversity to communities.

The poet Ottavio Rinuccini claimed that Peri's two works with music - Dafne (1598) and Euridice (1600), both to Rinuccini's libretti - were the first to revive the ancient manner of reciting in music.

In 1656 Davenant made the first attempt to revive English drama, which had been banned under Cromwell, with The first day's Entertainment (produced 1656), a work disguised under the title Declamations and Musick.

The Daddies are more widely recognized, however, as one of the first bands to revive swing music in the musical mainstream, helping spearhead the swing revival of the late 1990s which paved the way for the larger successes of Big Bad Voodoo Daddy and the Brian Setzer Orchestra.

First they knocked down the Steelers with a 51-yard connection on the second play of the second quarter to revive the gasping Broncos, and then they knocked them out with an 80-yard touchdown on the first play of overtime.

On the continent, Italy was one of the first countries to revive Roman customs.

Many people cite Scott as being the first designer to revive the eighties.