Sentence examples for revival mission from inspiring English sources

Farah, then, will be on a British revival mission when he makes his debut in the 2014 Virgin London Marathon – after first testing himself to the halfway mark against a field including the present world record holder Patrick Makau (whose global mark stands at 2 03 38) in this year's London race on 21 April.

In the US, Red Bull has taken on a revival mission with its Red Bull Rope Masters and the NDDL still hosts its Double Dutch Holiday Classic at the Apollo Theater, but the sport remains absent from the hip-hop radar.

Thanks to the album "Buena Vista Social Club," these revival missions are something of a cutting-edge science; Ralph Stanley, the bluegrass pioneer, has undergone one, as have several Cuban musicians in the orbit of the "Buena Vista" project; Johnny Cash has aimed his last four albums at a younger audience.

Pflueger designed Our Lady of the Wayside Church with a main theme of Spanish Mission Revival based on his childhood familiarity with Mission San Francisco de Asís (locally known as Mission Dolores) but added his own personal statement: a striking Georgian main entrance topped by a scrolled pediment.

The Sundance Institute is eyeing the post's mission revival theater as a potential cinema for independent films.

Today, diners can slurp oysters there and revel in the Mission Revival remodel, which manages to feel both sprawling and cozy.

Right now, it is an unselfconscious trove of turn-of-the-century architecture that combines Sonoran adobe construction with American Victorian, Bungalow and Mission Revival styles.

The movie stars are gone, but the building still sits here, an H-shaped, 444-room castle of Italian Renaissance and Mission revival styles, circa 1921.

Broadmoor This area, full of Spanish and mission revival homes, was a 12-acre lake in the 1800's and has a history of flooding problems.

Its orange groves have been overrun with town houses; architectural glories, including a "Mission Revival" fruit packing shed, stand mouldering in neglect.

Eventually the road leads to a house, and not any old house: a Sears prefab from the catalog, a Mission Revival model, with all its original wood and barely altered since it was completed in 1923.