"return to greatness" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to talk about something that was once great but is no longer, and you want to suggest that it can regain its greatness. For example: "The economy is struggling right now, but if we work together, we can return to greatness."
Of course, America cannot return to greatness because in its vicious inequality and bigotry, it has never been great.
Nothing less than a return to greatness and a national profile on par with Duke and North Carolina was demanded, a brutal standard.
But who is the shadowy sponsor of Mr Incredible's return to greatness - could he be the most dangerous enemy of all?
RETURN TO GREATNESS: How America Lost Its Sense of Purpose and What It Needs to Do to Recover It, by Alan Wolfe.
"Daniel Loeb had the vision to see Yahoo for its immense potential — the potential to return to greatness as a company and the potential to deliver significant shareholder value," Ms. Mayer said in a statement.
If I'm right, then the Oilers should be the next Canadian team to win a Cup, and soon; if the Oilers don't return to greatness, pronto, then this theory will be shown to be utterly, completely wrong.
I want to live long enough to see Britain free of mass immigration and returned to greatness.
"If a team is thriving, it's said to be returning to greatness, and if it's struggling, nostalgia can bring about the joy a fan clings to.
Instead, Rice offered perhaps the best speech on the country's problems since Lehman collapsed in late 2008, an acknowledgement that the country had stumbled badly and been bruised but was more than capable of picking itself back up and returning to greatness.
But the longed-for return to Pixar greatness seems as far away as ever.
The Olympics are a milestone in Chinese history, a celebration of the Middle Kingdom's return to international greatness after nearly two centuries of torpor and humiliation.
