Sentences with phrase «of former glories»

The Dwarves are drunken, almost lazy bunch living in the remains of their former glories.

Accordingly, American Pie: Reunion apes the event at its centre, in a cursory but not entirely convincing rehash of former glories.

Last week this story came to an end, with SunEdison emerging from bankruptcy as a shadow of its former glory.

The company is currently pouring resources into its Watson IoT offerings, undoubtedly hoping to recapture some of its former glory as a high - growth tech leader.

If there's a God in heaven, let this guy return the Church to some semblance of its former glory.

I love Church history — but fear we put up with a naïve nostalgia of a former glory rather than participate in writing our own story today.

IF THEY exist at all, most unglazed clay objects from ancient times are now rubble, mere fragments of their former glory.

From historical accounts it is clear that today's oceans are a pale shadow of their former glory.

But, he added, «the great industrial research institutes such as Bell Labs are now mere shadows of their former glory.»

In this article we're going to try to prove this theory wrong, and reintroduce the pullover into your routines in all of its former glory.

No man wants to be a shadow of his former glory, stuck in a rocking chair and unable to move.

This year J. Crew is offering a lot of cute stuff — and trying to recapture some of their former glory with reissues and reinterpretations of past season items.

The new Part 2 returns Harry to some of his former glory, with more color, more action and more witchcraft.

While the life of the typical film franchise has been all squeezed out by its third installment, leaving a shattered shell of its former glory, Shrek the Third defies the odds in being as entertaining as the original animated hit and surpassing the second edition.

Those signature bits of wordplay are all but guaranteed to show up in this third installment in the surprisingly successful comedy series about all - female a cappella group the Barden Bellas, who reunite for a USO tour hoping to recapture some of their former glory after failing in their initial attempts at post-college life.

Eventually taken over by criminals and brutally bombed by NATO in 1999, it has lost most of its former glory.

When the aging process was sufficient to make the buildings dangerous, creepy and an unrecognizable shell of its former glory, only then did the Packard plant become interesting.

With the introduction of the 2014 Datsun redi - Go Concept car at the 12th India Auto Expo 2014, Nissan appears ready for another run of former glory.

America is a shell of her former glory, a second - rate power dependent upon the kindness of Britain.

The hotel, originally designed by renowned architect Charles Dalmas, is situated on the Riviera and has been fully restored, replicating the beauty of its former glory years in 1913 and the iconic Belle Époque style of the time.

Now, on the PS3, Metal Gear has regained some, not all, of its former glory.

EA would probably survive too, although it would become a shell of its former glory.

Factor in some subpar Formula One releases, and Codemasters were starting to become a shadow of their former glory.

Couple that with the recent re-imagining of the original game in the series, Silent Hill: Shattered Memories, which many felt failed to provide even the most basic scares, and you begin to see many fans now feel the series has become a mockery of its former glory.

Now, it's but a shadow of its former glory, and for that, I am saddened beyond what any game itself could do to me.

It's a drag to write about places completely vanished or just a shell of their former glory so it feels good to talk about something still very -LSB-...]

After his death, the Florentine painter Botticelli's (circa 1445 - 1510) reputation slowly declined until the 19th century, when the pre-Raphaelites, a group of rebellious young British painters, rediscovered him and, by celebrating his work, restored him to some of his former glory.

Under normal circumstances, more than quadrupling your investment is considered a success, but Bitcoin will always live in the shadow of its former glory.

The West Side property, meanwhile, became a relic of its former glory, marked by a facade of boarded - up windows on one old building that concealed rooms filled with trash, peeling paint, and rusted lights.

Not exact matches

Instead of resurrecting the Colonel to lead KFC's sales back to their former fried glory, the company has instead unleashed a childish pantomime that people old enough to remember Colonel Sanders don't like and people too young to know him can't possibly understand.»

All of that is good, but it is unlikely to be enough to revive the industry to its former glory.

Now, EZTrader has been revamped by a new owner and restored to its former glory, with excellent perks for traders and a wide range of top - modern features.

This isn't an indication of anything yet, but just the thought of getting Chinese volumes back to their former glory is stimulating enough.

He's sort of revived hopes that Canada can regain its former glory, funded in part by what he calls «responsible deficits.»

Thousands of church buildings have been restored to their former glory and again dominate public space.

She will come to the realization of her evil ways, repent of them, and be restored to her former glory.

In this hope, instead of merely co-existing with the Babylonians, gnawed by memories of former cultural acceptance, the Jews in Babylon were to strive for the good of their city, the growth of the people of God, and their resulting testimony to the glory of God.

Mainstream Christians tend to look to the past rather than to the future, and to search for ways to restore Christianity to its former glory, as manifested in the flowering of Christendom.

While many longed for the restoration of Judah to its former glory and sighed hopefully for a political messiah to sit again on the throne of David, the Zealots who wished to throw off the Roman yoke by violent revolution were a relatively small group.

Through many years of anguish and toil they waited to be restored to their former glory and homeland.

I would rather live my life believing there is Heaven and Hell to find out upon death that there isn't one, than to live my life not believing there is a Heaven and Hell discovering that there is but had wasted any chances to dwell in Glory eternal in the former, instead of gnashing of teeth eternally in the latter.

In 1979 it was sold to Kestral Coaches of Stourport on Severn, before Taylor bought it returning the coach back to its former glory.

The issue is, theologically it would go against the prophecies and so would be destroyed most likely and not be rebuilt to its former glory until the messiah comes, there's also the issue that to rebuild the third temple they would need to knock down the Dome of the Rock (among other things) because the temple is pretty massive, and something tells me that muslims wouldn't exactly welcome the idea.

It reminded them of God's promise of a Messiah, a deliverer, who would restore them to their former power and glory, giving them their freedom.

Under new ownership and management, the Legends Golf Club (a Ted Robinson design and formerly Temeku Hills) is on a celebrated rebound restoring its facility to its former glory as one of Southern California's best golfing experiences.

Along with bringing the Amway Grand Plaza back to its former glory, something else amazing happened along the way; The hotel's rebirth sparked the resurgence of downtown Grand Rapids — a fact that's been well documented around the country and in articles, like this one in Forbe's Magazine.

However, following a full review of the Foster's business by Asia Pacific managing director and Foster's managing director, Ari Mervis, it was decided to dump Victoria Pale Lager and instead focus on the VB brand to help resurrect it to its former glory, as well as Foster's top five selling beer labels.

Although we haven't sipped it for ourselves just yet, the women over at YesWayRosé have given the bottles their stamp of approval, sharing a snap of the 40 - ounce container of summer glory on Instagram Thursday, appropriately hashtagged with #Sublime as an ode to the former band's debut album, 40 Ounces to Freedom, and #genius, because, well, it's obvious.

OUR CLUB IS RIDDLED WITH CANCER TOP TO BOTTOM AND ONLY A COMPLETE CHANGE OF ALL IN CHARGE AND THEN IMPORTING SOME PLAYERS WHO ACTUALLY CARE FOR THE SHIRT, WILL EVER RESTORE OUR FORMER GLORY.

With the return of Joe Gibbs and the trade for an elite running back, the franchise looks to its former offense to recapture its former glory