Sentence examples for lost greatness from inspiring English sources

Their mission – as they saw it – was to restore Russia's lost greatness.

The lost greatness of the imperial period can thereby be fleetingly restored".

He is, equally, an opportunist and an ideologue – a passionate, patriotic Russian nationalist, fiercely proud of the Motherland (the beloved Rodina) and determined to restore lost greatness.

Many of the new men who had emerged from the Resistance movement into political life, business posts, or the state bureaucracy retained a strong urge toward renovation as well as to a reassertion of France's lost greatness.

He interprets the Euroscepticism of the last few decades as a post-imperial condition, in which the longing for a lost greatness is so desperate that it grossly distorts the objects of nostalgia.

Back then, Republican Presidential aspirants like Taft still nurtured strong isolationist leanings; today's leading contenders, excepting Senator Rand Paul, are promoting a "muscular" foreign policy, flaunting their hawkishness as if a regular workout in the interventionist gym will return America to lost greatness.

Rallying around the sound bite that we need to "Make America Great Again" assumes America has lost its greatness.

His memoir becomes a eulogy to lost Italian greatness.

It has lost its greatness and it needs to get it back".

The first summer the family came to the Camp after the war, Mrs. Nudd began to feel that somehow, all the good people who had surrounded her had lost their greatness.

And although many have the ability to look far enough outside their own yards to see hardships in other countries, in other decades in America's history, there are some who weep with the belief that America has lost its greatness, and thus give their support to the man who promises to bring it back.