Because of social, political, and academic changes brought on by decolonization in the second half of the 20th century, creole languages have experienced revivals in the past few decades.

A few unsuccessful and often controversial revivals were attempted, until a new series, titled JSA, was launched in 1999 and continued through July 2006.

In 1542 the Sacred Congregation of the Inquisition was formed and a few years later the Index Librorum Prohibitorum banned a wide array of Renaissance works of literature, which marks the end of the illuminated manuscript together with Giulio Clovio, who is considered the greatest illuminator of the Italian High Renaissance, and arguably the last very notable artist in the long tradition of the illuminated manuscript, before some modern revivals.

Browning's poem was followed by a few revivals of Galuppi works, and the composer's music was played at memorials for the poet, both in church and in the concert hall.

During the next few years, Rice held a series of successful revivals in Texas that were promoted by Norris.

In England, there are a few surviving traditional teams, but there have been many revivals of mumming, often associated nowadays with morris and sword dance groups.

The piece has been popular with amateur operatic societies, but there have been few major professional revivals.

The price was raised from 70p to £ 1. 20 ( 99p for the first two weeks ), a new comic strip called " Office Hours " ( a comic strip about the adventures of the writers of The Dandy ) appeared, and two supposedly new ones also started, though they were actually revivals from a few years earlier (" Jak " and " Dreadlock Holmes ").

There have been a few exceptions, however: a successful revival tour of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, the movie version of Rhinoceros, The Front ( where he played Hecky Brown, a blacklisted performer whose story bears a similarity to Mostel ’ s own, and for which he was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor ), and theatrical revivals of Fiddler and Ulysses in Nighttown.

The play has received few modern revivals.

Billy Graham has also held a few revivals here.

PS Classic – In a few short years PS Classics has built an impressive catalogue of cast albums including Grey Gardens, A Year with Frog and Toad and the revivals of 110 In the Shade, Fiddler on the Roof, Company, Assassins, and Nine.

The Met's Cecil Beaton sets were destroyed by fire in 1973 and, after a long period of few revivals, one being in 1988 by the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, the Washington National Opera ( in a co-production with the Dallas Opera ) revived the work in 1995 using the 1964 revised and more compact version.

The vast majority of Bozo stations had discontinued their Bozo franchises in the early 1970s, with the exception of a few stations that had revivals in the late 1980s.

For the first few weeks in London, Thomas played the role of Sir Francis Chesney, the benevolent father of one of the undergraduates ; he regularly played the part in later revivals until shortly before his death.

Historically, few television revivals have been popular.

Of these there are surely few that would be more rewarding discoveries than Verner Von Heidenstam, the Swedish poet and novelist who received the award in 1916 and whose centennial was celebrated two years ago.

Yet as an evocation of time past, there are few such successful portraits in English historical literature.

The wear and tear of life have taught me that very few friends of mutual friends long to see foreign strangers, but I planned on being the soul of tact, of giving them plenty of outs was there the tiniest implication that their cups were already running over without us.

It usually turned out well for him because either he liked the right people or there were only a few wrong people in the town.

In spite of his being well liked there were a few people who were very careful about Alfred.

For a few minutes there was nothing to hear.

It is an ugly business and there are few, if any, wreaths for them.

But Interior Secretary Udall warns that there is a race on between those who would develop our few surviving open shorelines and those who would save them for the enjoyment of all as public preserves.

In Houston, there were a few incidents of friction between whites and Negroes, none of which were serious.

A few weeks ago, I read in the Bulletin that there were to be given Chinese classes in Cranston.

Nonetheless, although few in number they are a stubborn crew, as tenacious of life as the Hardshell Baptists, which suggests that there is some kind of vital principle embodied in their faith.

When the telephone rang on the day after Hino went down to the village, Rector had a hunch it would be Hino with some morsel of information too important to wait until his return, for there were few telephones in the village and the phone in Rector's office rarely rang unless it was important.

Whether there were too few automobiles in 1940 or too many now is problematical.

Whenever there is a thaw or a few sunny days, you'll be likely to find a brave little blossom or two.

Rain on Friday prevented many workouts, but there were a few miles of note on Thursday.

From there I turned left along Cumhuriyet Cadesi past more hotels and a park on the left, Republic Gardens, and came in a few moments to Taksim Square, one of the hubs of the city, with the Monument of the Republic, erected in 1928, in its center.

As in the United States, there is a flat fee-per-day rental charge plus a few cents per kilometer driven, and the per-day rate drops if the car is retained for a week.

Ever since Bambi, and, more recently, Born Free, there have been a lot of books about animals, but few compare with Max Fink's wry, understated, charming, and immensely readable My Friend, the Quizzical Salamander.

There are few data on the boa constrictor, those for the anaconda are unconvincing, and there is nothing at all on the amethystine python.

On the other hand, there are a few antithyroid drugs of this same general type, such as resorcinol, possessing no reducing activity and possibly acting through formation of a complex with molecular iodine.

Frequently a few isolated thick-walled cells or, rarely, groups of such cells in the xylem region, were also specifically stained, but there was no such staining in epidermis, cortex, most xylem cells, ray cells, or pith.

probably it is correct to think of it as a matter of a well-grooved, stereotyped mode of expression -- and no, or but a few, other communicational grooves, as yet -- being there, available for the patient's use, as newly-emerging emotions and ideas well up in him over the course of months.

A training program in a depressed area may have few enrollees unless there is some apparent prospect for better employment opportunities afterwards, and the prospect may be poor if the training is aimed solely at jobs in the local community.

However, there are relatively few such political constituencies, and, as has been pointed out, there is seldom a clear-cut distinction between the educational interests of one social class and those of another.

A few days ago, she would have thought such an expedition as this utterly ridiculous ; ;

Black would have little trouble getting out, but it might delay him a few minutes.

`` We know Penny spent some -- and Carmer must have dropped a few dollars getting that load on ''.

Or else the North really believes that all Southerners except a few quaint old characters have come around to realizing the errors of their past, and are now at heart sharers of the American Dream, like everybody else.

A Yale historian, writing a few years ago in The Yale Review, said: `` We in New England have long since segregated our children ''.

`` You could come down to the office once a day, look over a few exchanges, dictate an editorial, and then have the remainder of your time for your more serious literary labors.

Upon second thought we were forced to realize that we have very few reliable historical benchmarks against which we might compare the present situation, and that conclusions that present-day students are `` more '' or `` less '' religious could not be defended on the basis of our data.

And Lilly allowed me to help so that she could have her few little hours of escape.

The few scholars who have adopted the `` shore occupied by '' interpretation, Howorth, Shore, and Wade-Evans, have all been Celtic survivalists.

and among works of dystopian science fiction, not all provide intelligent criticism and very few have much merit as literature -- but then real quality has always been scarce in science fiction.

These new poems have only a few direct references to jazz and jazz musicians, but they show changes in Patchen's approach to his poetry, for he has tried to enter into and understand the emotional attitude of the jazz musician.

Long-range planning of programs and ways to finance them have become musts if the state in the next few years is to avoid crisis-to-crisis government.

The relatively few communities that have educational stations have found them of considerable value.

Granted that the Tammany name and the Tammany tiger often were regarded as badges of political shame, the sachems of the Hall also have a few good marks to their credit.

We have quite a few home-grown specimens of our own.

He seems to have at least a few 30- and 50-megaton bombs on hand, since we cannot assume that he has exploded his entire stock.

Cried one professor after a few months of Student Schiele's tantrums and rebellion: `` The devil himself must have defecated you into my classroom ''!!

Only a very few of the more advanced ones, such as India and Pakistan, have developed systematic techniques of programing.

If launched in a careful but determined way within the next few weeks, the Peace Corps could have several hundred persons in training this summer for placement next fall.

The last few years have witnessed what have been perhaps the most rapid advances in military technology in history.

Thus, in the last few years, a number of programs which looked very promising at the time their development was commenced have since been completely eliminated.