Sentence examples for had been refreshed from inspiring English sources

The International Olympic Committee vice-president, Sir Craig Reedie, said there were lessons for the summer Olympics in how the Winter Games programme had been refreshed over recent years.

"Apparently, if you polish wood, it looks better," Christine Quinn, the current City Council Speaker, said at a press conference that was conducted in an elegant committee room, adjacent to the council chamber, that had been refreshed with Wedgwood-blue paint.

As for the rest, Ceresa — a compact man with a broad, kindly face, who has worked at the Vat since 1972 and now presides over the seventy-five thousand volumes in its Reference Library — told me that pretty much everything that wasn't actually new had been "refreshed".

The clothes were so practical and effective (give or take a sci-fi print, as if from a retro video game), that it was easy to overlook the fact that each item, from A-line skirt to high-waist pants, had been refreshed.

In a bid to clamp down on corruption, election officials said electoral rolls had been refreshed and a text messaging service would provide voting information.

During Black Friday 2012, Walmart guaranteed three different deals for shoppers who showed up at the proper time; if the store ran out of stock, the shopper received a voucher to obtain the item at the advertised price later, once inventory had been refreshed.

But Ms. Nash acknowledged that the comity between candidates in both races had been refreshing.

Ms. Duflo spent last year at Princeton as a visiting professor and said it had been refreshing to spend time outside M.I.T.

Tight end Tony Moeaki is still dealing with the emotional fallout from last season — "I try not to go back and think of last year's experiences" — but he said the presence of Smith and Reid had been refreshing.

Even the B&B scene has been refreshed.

But lately its matchless record has been refreshed.