Sentence examples for reclaimed itself from inspiring English sources

It grew wild and pristine, dense and fertile — improbably pure, as though nature had said "Enough!" and reclaimed itself.

Eventually, it reclaimed itself as a spazio pubblico autogestito a self-governing space completely at the disposal of the public.

The neighborhood reclaims itself, they say.

The United States, he goes on, needs to reclaim itself as "one nation under God".

When Kennedy uses it, it becomes a verb — the method by which the nation will reclaim itself from destructive "I"s.

The marriage right, a "right to a person akin to a right to a thing," gives spouses "lifelong possession of each other's sexual attributes," a transaction supposed to render sex compatible with respect for humanity: "while one person is acquired by the other as if it were a thing, the one who is acquired acquires the other in turn; for in this way each reclaims itself and restores its personality".

[Earth] is going to reclaim itself once it tires of us.

The flood and the ongoing struggle of New Orleans to reclaim itself continues to reveal our country's unfinished business — around race and class and hierarchies — as well our moral obligation to try to make it right.

The powers that the cardinals had succeeded in appropriating were difficult for the centralized authority of the papacy, whether in Avignon or in Rome, to reclaim for itself.

But it did not strike the proposed amendment down, a move that could have provoked a clash between the assertive judiciary and a representative body bent on reclaiming for itself powers that had been absorbed by past military dictators.

But they are still proposing to build a new levee high enough and strong enough to hold back even those rising tides, to keep the water from reclaiming for itself the land that once was, but for the moment no longer is, part of the bay.