Sentence examples for restoration himself from inspiring English sources

In 2012 he struck a deal with the city, which agreed to sell him a moldering, neo-Classical ruin that had once been a bank for the unbeatable price of $1; one of the conditions of the sale was that Gates had to raise money for its restoration himself.

Mr. Beatty plans to do much of the restoration work himself, thereby keeping costs down.

Dressed in a period "duster," Goyne said he had purchased the antique car eight years ago and performed almost all of the restoration work himself.

As recently as five years ago, William G. Battle, the director of the Newhallville Restoration Corporation, considered himself a "severe critic" of Yale.

He edited the Oxford Illustrated History of the Theatre (2001), one of the outstanding books of its kind, with definitive essays by Martin Esslin (on modern theatre 1890-1920), Peter Holland (18th century), Oliver Taplin (Greek theatre) and Peter Thomson (English Renaissance and Restoration drama), Russell Brown himself providing a magisterial, international overview of theatre since 1970.

By organizing the visit, Mr. Chalabi sought to highlight the museum's restoration efforts and insert himself in the recovery process.

But curiosity got the better of Uglow once again, and she became, she says, intrigued by the Restoration and by Charles II himself – his appetite for pleasure, his own interest in the "new science" and his often risky strategies for survival.

In the middle of the restoration process Markowicz found himself looking at the van's empty interior and realized it would make a great camera obscura.

The designer himself provided some restoration advice.

Thereafter he devoted himself to the restoration of the empire and to the cause of Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte.

Thereafter, Probus devoted himself to economic restoration; he attempted to return abandoned farmland to cultivation and, with the aid of military labour, undertook works of improvement.