(v. t.) To build again, as something which has been demolished; to construct anew; as, to rebuild a house, a wall, a wharf, or a city.
Example Sentences:
(1) Schneiderlin, valued at an improbable £27m, and the currently injured Jay Rodriguez are wanted by their former manager Mauricio Pochettino at Spurs, but the chairman Ralph Krueger has apparently called a halt to any more outgoings, saying: “They are part of the core that we have decided to keep at Southampton.” He added: “Jay Rodriguez and Morgan Schneiderlin are not for sale and they will be a part of our club as we enter the new season.” The new manager Ronald Koeman has begun rebuilding by bringing in Dusan Tadic and Graziano Pellè from the Dutch league and Krueger said: “We will have players coming in, we will make transfers to strengthen the squad.
(2) Tony Abbott has refused to concede that saying Aboriginal people who live in remote communities have made a “lifestyle choice” was a poor choice of words as the father of reconciliation issued a public plea to rebuild relations with Indigenous people.
(3) "It will mean root-and-branch change for our banks if we are to deliver real change for Britain, if we are to rebuild our economy so it works for working people, and if we are to restore trust in a sector of our economy worth billions of pounds and hundreds of thousands of jobs to our country."
(4) Her predecessor, Bingu wa Mutharika, had fallen out with international donors, but Banda managed to rebuild relationships.
(5) This thoughtful intervention brought new hope to us and others, for the rebuilding of public trust in surveillance conducted with respect for privacy, democracy and the law.
(6) Other Hamas demands include the rebuilding of Gaza international airport, which Israel destroyed in 2001 , the release of prisoners and the reopening of the “safe passage” to the West Bank.
(7) We have learned that only a revolutionary approach – one that unites revolutionary forces from across the political spectrum – will succeed in rebuilding our country.
(8) The operatory technic used is very classic: septoplasty as the first step, then rhinoplasty by extra mucosal way, with paramedial and lateral osteotomies allowing rebuilding of nasal osseous pyramid.
(9) Salmond also made a tacit admission that the "Brown bounce" – the prime minister's success in rebuilding voters' confidence during the financial crisis – had been a factor.
(10) Tepco, meanwhile, has secured 2tn yen in loans to rebuild its power supply networks, which was badly damaged in the 11 March earthquake and tsunami.
(11) The science, he reminds us, is clear, and he wants to somehow rebuild a national consensus.
(12) Only by knowing exactly who we are can we hope to rebuild.
(13) Every time we rebuild a school we demonstrate our faith in the future.
(14) This is the doomsday scenario, but according to a leaked report of the Rebuild Japan Initiative Foundation – a team of university professors, lawyers and journalists who spent six months investigating Japan's response to the triple meltdown at the plant – it could all too easily have happened.
(15) Kieny said it was not enough simply to rebuild the health systems weakened by Ebola; leaders should instead rethink how health sectors operate in developing countries, she argued.
(16) By trading Holiday for Noel, the 76ers are effectively ending the Andrew Bynum experiment after one disastrous year and seem likely to start a rebuilding process.
(17) When asked whether he was encouraged that Liverpool’s players were still clearly playing for their manager he issued an impassioned defence of his reign, but also warned the club faced a lengthy rebuilding job, “whether that is with me or someone else in the job”.
(18) Imagine what would happen if the coalition ran Team GB the same way it oversaw the rebuilding of the British economy.
(19) Rebuilding the party and restoring its integrity was a hard slog.
(20) "If we are afraid of the religious impact, we need to work from now to help in the revolution, to be able, after, to rebuild."
Refurbish
Definition:
(v. t.) To furbish anew.
Example Sentences:
(1) While visitors amble freely around the newly refurbished inside – the Pierhead is sure and steadfast in its role outside as the drastic red building, emblazoning the landscape of Cardiff Bay in all its regal beauty.
(2) Our aim is to complete the second phase of our redevelopment [the Front of House refurbishment] by then, which will require my full focus.
(3) Thompson said its sale "represents another milestone in the way the BBC is changing" from a number of broadcasting bases to key HQs in the capital and around the country, including the newly-refurbished Broadcasting House in central London and BBC North in Salford.
(4) Berrimah, built 35 years ago, has been beset by reports that it is too harsh an environment for children – particularly young female offenders, who will be housed in the former maximum security wing – and is falling apart, despite $800,000 worth of refurbishments.
(5) Public outrage is such that the Congress party is prepared to pay the price of potentially breaking their alliance with the DMK to refurbish their image," Paranjoy Thakurta, a respected commentator and journalist writing on corruption, told the Guardian.
(6) Some £60m was ploughed into refurbishments in 2013 with plans to invest the same amount in the new financial year.
(7) He changed the logo, moved the design studio from Paris to Los Angeles and started to refurbish the stores, decisions that were viewed with suspicion.
(8) Statue at New York Public Library , US TC Boyle , author Facebook Twitter Pinterest Refurbishment of the Rose reading room at New York Public Library.
(9) I think now in the the East End they are pinpointing a lot of the money into new flats and new housing estates and refurbishment of areas.
(10) He's planning next season's transfer strategy, he's involved in planning the refurbishment of Finch Farm" 4.07pm BST Top-notch mixture of fiction, straw-clutching and self-sacrifice here from Mark Judd: "I’ve never watched Game of Thrones so know little of what I talk about but if Wayne Rooney is advised to avoid weddings I’ll get remarried to anyone and invite him to the wedding if it ultimately gets him off the pay-roll at Old Trafford."
(11) We have seen continued investment in the playing squad; the expanded main stand; the new flagship retail store opening later this year; fully refurbished retail stores in Liverpool and Belfast; and we are consulting on a proposed development at our academy in Kirkby to bring together the first team and our young players.
(12) The hotel is adding 39 new rooms, due to open in June, as well as a refurbished fitness centre.
(13) A few years ago, he bought Lord Byron's old country estate in Hampton Court, and by all accounts the refurbishments would make Versailles look modest.
(14) The £40m dowry will be used to refurbish stores as Aeon outlets with the cash helping to preserve employment of Tesco's nearly 1,000 workforce.
(15) Revenues grew in the UK, however, where all its stores have been refurbished.
(16) So a rider was added to the contract at the end of 2013, authorising SETE not to refurbish the east lift or redevelop the area at the foot of the tower.
(17) His desire, he says, is to refurbish what he calls the "human rainbow.
(18) Culture secretary Maria Miller, communities secretary Eric Pickles and the prime minister's special representative for the centenary, Andrew Murrison, will unveil plans to spend more than £50m, including a substantial grant towards refurbishing the first world war galleries at the Imperial War Museum and a grant to make HMS Caroline, the last surviving warship from the battle of Jutland, into a floating museum.
(19) Like all cities in the UK, Leeds is already suffering from the effect of the coalition's first round of cuts over the summer: the end of Labour's £55bn Building Schools for the Future programme has hit the refurbishment or rebuilding programmes of more than 20 schools; funding has been culled from housing projects; school swimming pools and eco-towns plans, and plans to build 10 playgrounds are on hold.
(20) Local officials say 34 houses in the village of about 800 were too badly damaged to be refurbished.