Sentence examples for former greatness from inspiring English sources

"I will return America to its former greatness".

Indeed, like middle-class English families, they tend to cherish a myth of their former greatness.

There is nowhere else in this surging city where former greatness seems further from reach.

I hope he is able to return to his former greatness someday soon and prove all the naysayers wrong.

Almost the only survival of Kiev's former greatness was its role as the seat of an Eastern Orthodox metropolitan.

The monumental ruins of Carthage, at modern Tunis, are about the only visible reminders of their former greatness.

"Dušan the Mighty" represented at that time a symbol of former glory and greatness, while the restoration of Dušan's empire was stressed as the ideal goal of contemporary Serbian politics.

To which one -- the late Great Kim or the former Dear Kim, now elevated to titular greatness -- did the compound proper noun Great Leader refer?

But the Knicks see untapped talent, and one of Duhon's former coaches sees coming greatness if Duhon, as expected, becomes Coach Mike D'Antoni's starting point guard next season.

And eventually, he fulfilled the faith of a former coach who saw greatness for him in the backstroke, and set world records in the 50-, 100- and 200-meter races.

I once asked the late Sebastian Peake, eldest son of Mervyn, how he viewed the Tolkien-but-not-Peake question, and why he thought his father had never achieved the former's level of greatness.