Sentence examples for reverse past from inspiring English sources

One of its main purposes was to reverse past land seizures perpetuated against indigenous populations during colonial times.

They argue that being unshod is normal for humans and should reverse past injuries related to modern running shoes and prevent future ones.

In addition, officials expect to reverse past practices and arrange about a dozen equity participation plans with foreign companies, including Burroughs, Hewlett-Packard, Data General and International Computers Ltd. of Britain.

And the White House has scrambled to find ways to keep the partially shuttered government functioning, a rapidly shifting and often improvised process that has seen the administration reverse past precedent and enter into legally murky territory.

River restoration is an increasingly common approach utilized to reverse past degradation of freshwater ecosystems and to mitigate the anticipated damage to freshwaters from future development and resource-extraction activities.

"Policy may be shifting from a moderately tighter stance to a slightly easier one, with the risk that the yuan may not only reverse past appreciation against a basket of currencies, but may move beyond it," she says.

Advocates of privatisation often ask, rhetorically, whether their opponents would support reversing past renationalisation.

So Argentina is catching up with its neighbours and the world, and reversing past mistakes in this area.

If Israel is serious about reversing past mistakes, it must commit to a full dismantlement of West Bank settlements and withdraw to the 1967 Green Line.

Reversing past policy, the Chinese government said it would allow the Big Five international accounting firms to audit its state-owned banks.

Mr. Lee said that attacks on aid workers had actually decreased by 35 percent in 2010 compared with last year, reversing past trends, even as overall violence increases.