Sentence examples for restoring some sort of from inspiring English sources

The point of maintaining a language, he says, "is not just so we can hear another pretty bird singing in the forest". Nor, he continues, is it about restoring some sort of pre-contact idyll.

Perhaps it is in reaction to three solid days of obsession over the swollen appendage of Colts defensive end Dwight Freeney (He's walking on the beach!), and we are restoring some sort of cosmic balance.

In Russia, it would make the idea of restoring some sort of post-Soviet realm not just a nostalgic Communist obsession but a respectable strategic alternative to joining the West.

World governing body Fina called a halt to the escalating conflict at the end of 2009, rewriting the rules on swimsuits and restoring some sort of order, but by then the damage to the record books had been done.

A measure from the Tories on marriage will restore some sort of balance.

"We wanted to take out the goofiness, to restore some sort of rational relationship to type design," O'Hara told me.

This and decentralisation are so advanced that many communists are trying to restore some sort of central influence.

Elissalde restored some sort of order to dented ranks - Thierry Dusautoir had been injured in the charge from a stolen line-out - with a penalty on the stroke.

That is certainly true of al-Shabaab, which was born out of the Islamic Court Union, a loose formation of Islamic judicial systems that managed to restore some sort of civil order after years of a violent anarchy in Somalia, opening the Mogadishu airport and earning the support from a Somali majority.

And even an attempt to restore some sort of civilian government in Jaffna has not gone well.As more and more Tamils have returned to Jaffna, the government decided to risk holding local elections in the region on January 29th the first vote to be held there for 16 years.

Better perhaps to wean yourself away from excessive digital use by doing something alternative: read a book, go to a movie (where turning off phones is required), take a walk, eat a meal without checking … basically restore some sort of self-discipline through the benefit of alternate activities.