What is "reviving"

Usage examples of "reviving".

Thus, a return to inspections would also mean reviving the sanctions and shutting down the smuggling, meaning that pursuing the inspections route requires not only finding a way out of the inspections trap, but also solving all of the problems of fixing the sanctions and eradicating the smuggling.

Finally, a new inspections program would require reviving the sanctions to cut off the smuggling.

While these proponents of deterrence recognize that containment cannot be sustained for much longer in its current form and that reviving it is not a realistic prospect, they are even less sanguine about any of the various regime change options.

While the former surveyed the ruins, both internally and externally, with the curiosity of one whose recollections were reviving at each moment, Chingachgook related to his son, in the language of the Delawares, and with the pride of a conqueror, the brief history of the skirmish which had been fought, in his youth, in that secluded spot.

In Bosnia, these efforts included modernizing agriculture, reviving and reforming education, restoring health care (including by rebuilding hospitals and modernizing equipment and practices), repairing infrastructure, building and repairing housing, restoring sanitation and sewage services, restructuring and reforming the police force, establishing the rule of law, training lawyers and judges, building political parties, promoting transparency and accountability in governance, restoring and modernizing the energy sector, promoting the adoption of international standards of accounting, developing a regulatory banking system, privatizing industry, creating capital markets for investment, providing loans for the start-up of new companies, and building an independent media and other political institutions.

She hadn't the requisite flexibility to enjoy contact with new personalities, usually such a reviving and stimulating experience for her.

He exhaled noisily and wondered if a cup of coffee would have a reviving effect.

In addition, the sense that Iraq's international isolation is ending will almost certainly improve Iraqi morale, as will the reviving of the Iraqi economy by making life easier on the families of soldiers and leaving the regime with greater resources to reward loyal officers.

See, the star flared about five years ago, and the light reached the ship just a week or so ago, that’s when they started reviving us.

But because they blame me for reviving you, they sent me back down to this miserable—” He stopped there, looking around to see if anyone had heard his complaints.

They think they might as well thaw out some of the freezers without reviving them.

As he performed this office, he whispered his reviving hopes in the ears of the trembling females, who, through dread of encountering the savage countenances of their captors, seldom raised their eyes from the ground.

He was drawing nearer to that great head, could see now how waves curled about the angle of the lower jaw, slapping inward between gaps of missing teeth—which were really broken fangs of rock—as if the skull now and then sucked reviving moisture from the water.

And just maybe the reviving powers of the highly concentrated Sustain might cut down the effects of the shock—or whatever affected him now.

But if the medic had given up hope of reviving the Survey man, he might not examine him too closely now.