Sentence examples for 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 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.

Responsible for one-third of child mortality, and chronically affecting 165 million children worldwide, stunting or low height for age is not only a human catastrophe, but also a major brake on development.

This has pushed several hotel companies to put the brakes on development until they see more demand.

Experiments carried out by Dr. Tabin and his colleagues point to the brake on limb development.

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

Their monopolies and oligopolies put a significant brake on business development.

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