Sentence examples for accelerate a plan from inspiring English sources

The Arena District's popularity has prompted Mayor Michael B. Coleman to accelerate a plan for the city's depopulated downtown that he introduced in 2002.

The sudden closing seemed to accelerate a plan previously announced by the company to cut 1,200 workers, or one-fourth of its Chilean operation, by June because of the spreading virus.

The Republican plan would make sharp cuts in the estate tax, accelerate a plan to make health insurance tax deductible for the self-employed and reduce other taxes for small businesses.

Before the Copenhagen meeting Wulf Bernotat, the boss of E.ON, a giant German power company, said that if the summit delivered a firm commitment to cut emissions, his firm would be willing to accelerate a plan to cut its carbon emissions to half of their 1990 level by 2030, by bringing the deadline forward to 2020.

WITH traffic through the port of New York expected to double by the end of the decade and continue growing, and with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey having voted to accelerate a plan to dredge channels to accommodate a new generation of big ships, the authority is making other changes to speed the flow of cargo across its docks.

The accident prompted the Railways to accelerate a plan to adopt extended track circuiting on a large scale.

But the storm also seems to have accelerated a plan to build sturdy transitional shelters for the camp's residents.

Tyco International Ltd. will spin off its entire CIT Group finance unit, accelerating a plan to split into four companies to quell investor concerns about accounting complexity.

In recent months, the government has accelerated a plan to eliminate corporate tax havens within Russia, which allowed companies registered in some of the country's more impoverished regions to escape the full weight of taxes.

The agency's action capped a week in which Ford's chief executive, William Clay Ford Jr., and its chief financial officer, Allan D. Gilmour, met with investors in New York and Boston, assuring them the company was accelerating a plan to return to profitability, after losing $5.5 billion in 2001.

The low interest rate environment means he is also accelerating a plan, outlined in late 2014, to close around 200 branches – around 6% of the network – and axe a further 9,000 roles, on top of the 45,000 lost since the rescue of HBOS in 2008.