Sentence examples for as a flagship project from inspiring English sources
Hailed by the central government in Beijing as a flagship project, the copper, gold and molybdenum mining operation is hated by many Tibetans, who are furious at the environmental degradation it and other mines have caused on the Tibetan plateau.
Boris Johnson has attacked the £18bn cost of Britain's first nuclear power station in two decades as "a disgrace" – just one month after David Cameron announced the deal and hailed it as a "flagship project of cooperation" between China and the UK.
"The plans for the new stadium, leisure centre and community hub, are truly ground breaking and represent a unique scheme that is sure to become a flagship project regionally as well as nationally".
"Audioboo has been a flagship project for us," said 4ip's digital commissioner Daniel Heaf.
The government was desperate for a flagship project to propel the country from obscurity into the world's tourism brochures.
IF was granted by ARCAD (Agropolis Resource Center for Crop Conservation, Adaptation and Diversity), a flagship project of the Agropolis Fondation, and JD by scientific council of Montpellier SupAgro.
"I mean, Columbia, you should want to solve the problem, so you don't keep having to solve the problem, you know what I mean?" The question now is whether Columbia values SHIFT as a flagship research project or as a practical guide to institutional change.
SuperB was approved by the Italian parliament in December 2010 as the flagship project in a new infrastructure program set up by the country's research ministry.
The reaction to the paper mirrors a dispute that has divided Europe's neuroscience community since HBP was picked by the European Commission as a so-called Flagship project eligible for up to €1 billion in funding.
