Sentence examples for built up from scratch from inspiring English sources

There is a lot in Iraq that needs to be built up from scratch.

We have a complete assembly line in Osaka, Japan, built up from scratch, especially for the electric motor.

I remember spending a summer 15 years ago working in his car dealership, a business he had built up from scratch.

Second, charter schools have to be built up from scratch; at the time the statistics were gathered most were only a few years old.

In interviews conducted away from Afghan or foreign troops, residents of Zabul generally approved of the Afghan National Army, a multiethnic force that has been built up from scratch since 2002.

But Lord Saatchi and his brother Charles got carried away, launching an audacious bid for Midland Bank, and found themselves booted out of the agency they had built up from scratch.

Only a grammar containing both phrase structure and transformation rules, Chomsky argued, could generate a natural language — 'generate' in the sense that by stepwise application of the rules, one could in principle build up from scratch all and only the sentences that the language contains.

His father renounced 'childish things' in order to build up from scratch his own electrical engineering company, now specialising in reducing electricity bills for large companies.

After quitting Enron in 1996, its joint founder, Richard Kinder, built up the firm from scratch, riding the energy boom.

As co-chairman of a Premier League club and somebody who, in the space of 20 years, built up a company from scratch to be valued at around £100m when sold in 2011, Steve Parish's views on the transition from running a business to running a football club are insightful.

If Green acquired UCI through his private vehicle Tangent Industries, it would mark a comeback for the man who built up Carlton from scratch 20 years ago.