Sentence examples for served to revive from inspiring English sources

The short-lived thaw in relations between Syria and Turkey served to revive family ties and reunite clans in the Kurdish region that had been divided for decades by a border drawn up in 1923, adjusted in 1938, and made virtually impenetrable by land mines from 1956 onward.

Mr. Potter's was one of several biographies of Pollock published in the 1980s that served to revive interest in Pollock's work — and helped set off a scramble in Hollywood to make a movie about this colorful and sometimes violent master of modern art.

Her confirmation hearings may serve to revive the furor.

The rest of Iraq needs radical decentralisation of power that would serve to revive more natural local cultures and de-emphasise the destructive solidarities caused by sectarian polarisation.

We should not doubt that the prospect of a war between England and the United States, would serve to revive the former hopes and renew the ancient enmity of Mexico".He has good reason to fear the growing power of the Mexican government.

The positive side of cheating is that it can sometimes serve to revive a relationship; it's an opportunity to bring up what is lacking in the relationship and propel a couple into a renewed and better union -- though it's a painful way to get there.

McCarthy's comments have, ironically, served only to revive Guantánamo's most tragic stories, which, presumably, the rest of the administration hoped had been forgotten.

Can a judicial resolution lessen the agony of the victims and families, or does it serve only to revive pain that had long ago subsided?

But more detailed regulations, compensation payments to investors or structural remedies such as a ban on issuing research to retail clients might be counterproductive.The big risk is that any such steps would serve only to revive the illusion among investors that it is ever sensible to take an analyst's advice at its word.

The Catholic Monarchs used them wherever local potentates tended to override the electoral process, and corregidores served to strengthen royal authority rather than revive local responsibility.

New taxes will never be enough and would only serve to kill a reviving economy, just as they did in 1937 after the 1934 dollar devaluation raised the economy from depression.