Sentence examples for office revived from inspiring English sources

During his long life he was thought to be about 90 he had been a judge, a university rector, the head of the fatwa committee and finally was made grand mufti, an office revived in his honour.He was a lifeline between the ruling family and its most important constituency, in Nejd, the conservative heartland of Arabia.

After that, moviegoers seemed to get pickier, and it was not until after a monthlong slump that the box office revived over the Independence Day weekend, thanks in part to Wolfgang Peterson's "Perfect Storm" (at $178 million, the summer's third-biggest hit).

She has made four trips outside the capital, Yangon, to rally supporters and has reopened more than 65 party offices, reviving a network that had almost been eliminated by the government.

Soon after taking office, Blaine revived his old idea of an international conference of western hemisphere nations.

The decision, which was posted on the Web sites of the Bureau of Land Management's Oregon offices, has revived the battle lines formed during the fight over the extensive logging of old-growth timber in the 1980s, a practice blamed for the rapid decline in populations of the northern spotted owl.

In his decade in office, Erdogan has revived Turkey's economy and its influence.

To save money, the county's management oversight office will be revived, Mr. Levy said.

Capital spending, despite cuts at the start of the government's period in office, has been revived.

All transfers go through his office, and he revived a promotion board to do away with "the hook," slang for getting plum assignments based on whom you know.

1017 Eadric Streona, ("The Acquisitor") Eadric also spelled Edric (died 1017) ealdorman of the Mercians, who, though a man of ignoble birth, was advanced to the revived office of ealdorman by the English king Ethelred II, whose daughter Eadgyth Eadric married.

But he and colleagues sitting in the office, strewn with cigarette butts, were adamant about the role a revived party would play in any election.