Sentence examples for regain for from inspiring English sources

Such a move would regain for the United States the moral high ground.

"It's not about the videos — it's about the powerful class time we regain for higher-order thinking activities," she said.

Even the patriotic verses he wrote during World War II, which were extremely popular among the soldiers, did not regain for him his former status.

In addition to negotiating a treaty of mutual recognition, Karakhan was to try to regain for the Soviet Union control of the Chinese Eastern Railway.

It remains 4.5m jobs short of the pre-recession employment peak a height it will not regain for another 32 months at recent job-creation rates.

Representative Bentsen, 42, seeks to regain for Democrats the seat being vacated by Senator Phil Gramm, the Republican who is retiring after three terms.

Amateur status cannot be regained for a year.

In 357 bc Chares regained for Athens the Thracian Chersonese from the Thracian king Cersobleptes.

But this is a weak recovery for the developed world, with ground lost that will not be regained for a long time, maybe never.

Innocence was regained for an hour or so last night during a late set by the New Orleans duo the Generationals at the Bowery Ballroom on the Lower East Side.

Meek has a feel for the atmosphere of those years at the turn of the century, when the British and American and Australian publics regained for a period the taste for foreign warfare that they had lost in the 1890s.