Sentence examples for hand to restoring from inspiring English sources

Born to Scottish parents who had eight other children, their father died when they were 12, and after leaving school the twins worked briefly in the accounts department at General Electric before turning their hand to restoring and selling dilapidated houses, eventually making enough money to move into the hotel trade.

That means using energy policy and any other tool to hand to restore the influence Russia lost after the Soviet Union collapsed.

Cellphones rang and cigarette smoke wafted through the standing-room-only chamber as the judge, sitting beneath a Greek Orthodox painting of Jesus, banged the table with her hand to restore order.

The directive, he said, was "on the one hand to restore law and order, and on the other to carry this out wisely," even if that meant waiting 24 hours or more to open a blocked road.

All of the scoreboards are electronic now, and it is possible to imagine that in some revivalist era to come, there will be a movement to do it all again by hand, to restore all of Wimbledon's delightful and original quirks.

Mr Sisi, who helped depose previous leader Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood in July last year, has become the candidate of consensus for the forces of Egypt's old elite, as well as a great many ordinary people who, battered and bruised by three years of street conflict and a floundering economy, say they yearn for a strong hand to restore stability.

Having hesitated as the demonstrations grew, an initially baffled president has played her hand to restore some kind of order to her country.

At the very least, Greene has a battle on his hands to restore his confidence before the gold, silver and bronze are on the line.

Novès is one of the great men of European rugby, the principal driving force behind the wondrous Toulouse sides of the 90s and the Noughties, but he has quite a task on his hands to restore the national team to something like its former glory after a traumatic World Cup exit at the hands of the All Blacks.

Angiogenesis is a phenomenon concerning both physiological conditions linked to development and pathological conditions; in the latter it is aimed at providing an enhancement in blood supply to tumours, on one hand, and to restore the circulation in peripheral arterial and ischemic diseases, on the other hand, thus resulting in a controversial effect depending on the circumstances.

In fight or flight, we focus narrowly on the threat at hand, seeking to restore safety at any cost.