Sentence examples for projects to restore from inspiring English sources

With their empire in tatters, postwar Britons were desperate for a source of renewal to pierce their collective mourning; they needed grand projects to restore national pride.

Now, more than $300 million in public and private money has been pumped into a half dozen projects to restore the old industrial riverfront.

"We are eager to continue working with public, state and federal co-trustees and BP to quickly convert this down payment into projects to restore our damaged coast and replace our lost wildlife".

Anglers have probably done more than anyone to restore wildlife in rivers by investing in projects to restore damaged habitats, reporting pollution and contributing £25m each year in rod licences to the Environment Agency.

In consequence, both emperors regularly moved well-to-do city dwellers of the Yangtze delta region to northern towns for their cultural adornment, resettled peasants from the overpopulated southeast into the vacant lands of the north for their agrarian redevelopment, and instituted water-control projects to restore the productivity of the Huang and Huai river basins.

Projects to restore vegetation have been applied in this area since the 1990s.

In addition to her career as a performer, Midler was active in various social causes, serving as a spokesperson for AIDS awareness and founding the New York Restoration Project to restore New York parks and community gardens.

The restoration is part of a huge project to restore the seven-mile (12 km) Stroudwater Navigation and the 29-mile (46km) Thames and Severn Canal.

Or a big project to restore the American commercial spirit and the small-time capitalist striver.

Now, in Brazil, we are working on a project to restore the headwaters of the Rio Doce.

(The corps is now involved in a multimillion-dollar project to restore them).