Sentence examples for built on a major from inspiring English sources

Barclays Center was built on a major transit hub, in the hope that most customers would arrive by subway or the Long Island Rail Road.

But the president tempered that message with a new agenda of international humanitarianism, built on a major new intitiative against AIDS in Africa.

Fiat Tagliero was built on a major intersection where any of Asmara's 50,000 cars could stock up on petrol and supplies before departing the metropolis for the airport or Eritrea's southern towns and Ethiopia beyond.

A self-described "catastrophist" who invested in an inflatable boat after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the better to make her possible escape from the isle of Manhattan, the author is understandably spooked to find that her sons' new elementary school is built on a major fault line.

It was well-known that Mexico was built on a major earthquake fault, Cowal remarked, and officially at least, the country had strict rules about construction, which many well-connected construction companies apparently ignored.

So, he said, developers did not feel the same pressure to build "on spec" — without a major tenant already signed up — in a strong real estate market.

What the team found was that Gradle, the core of the Android Studio build system, is getting a lot faster, but the system and platform you build on also has a major impact.

John McGettrick, of the Red Hook Civic Association, complained that the neighborhood would be overwhelmed with traffic because the store would be built on a peninsula with only one major street.

"It is being built on a huge scale and involves a major investment of resources.

The electricity grid was built on a system of power generation near major cities which branched out to supply peripheries such as the Hebrides.

The tallest building is a nine-story dormitory on the campus of California State University, Chico, which was built on a cherry orchard and offers 120 majors to its student body of 14,000.