At the same time, if you, a manufacturer, continue building fleets of nonhybrid gas guzzlers, you are condemning yourself, your employees and shareholders to oblivion.
Critics of the pledge worry that China will rapidly increase emissions over the next decade by building fleets of new coal-fired power plants, for instance—in order to make the 2030 peak as high as possible.
The two sides set about building fleets: the British at Saint-Jean and the Americans at the other end of the lake in Skenesborough (present-day Whitehall, New York).
In other words, he was in charge of building a fleet of fearsome high-seas raiders.
For one thing, Teledesic has the great advantage of being able to rethink its future before building its fleet.
By building a fleet of solar-powered school boats, the Bangladeshi initiative Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha has secured year-round education in flood-prone regions of Bangladesh.
And TAM is building its fleet: in addition to its original 30 Fokker 100s, it has leased 18 more, bought five wide-bodied Airbus A330s and ordered 38 Airbus A320s.
But he glimpsed that steamboats were the wave of the future and set about building a fleet of towing paddle-wheelers that by 1900 was the largest of its kind in the United States.
He also bought American real estate and Asian stocks, tried to sell repackaged cigarettes in Russia and beer snacks in South Korea, and explored building a fleet of mini-blimps for advertising.
A London-based operation that is building a fleet of 10 yachts, YachtPlus is the latest company to jump into fractionals, a shared-ownership structure that allows people to buy only part of a costly item.
Solomon is perhaps one of the most overrated figures in the Old Testament, in spite of his achievements in wisdom, construction, and commerce; he is recorded as having 1,000 wives and concubines some of them merely guarantees of commercial treaties, to be sure and as building a fleet of ships for a nearly landlocked Israel.
