Sentence examples for a brake on development from inspiring English sources

The Croton Reservoir System, as an object of beauty and a brake on development, is a double blessing.

Currently, the need to dispose of sewage locally acts as a brake on development that might threaten water quality.

Climate change and the lack of cash to invest in renewable energy technologies, such as ocean thermal energy conversion, is now putting a brake on development, he said.

These regulations [introduced under a Conservative government] have been in place for 17 years and they have not been a brake on development".

They act as a brake on development where it threatens the natural world, but the report adds weight to the case that the laws should not be watered down.

They said they could not talk about issues such as the green economy - which some see as likely to put a brake on development - unless western nations were clear about the amount of financial aid they were prepared to pledge.

— putting a brake on growth.

All of this acts as a brake on growth.

But others take the view that the groups have been a brake on runaway development.

"I feel it's been a brake on economic development and therefore a brake on overall employment".

The levy, he said, would "put a brake on the development of new media advertising".