Sentence examples for construction has been held from inspiring English sources

Construction has been held up for more than a year amid protests over its potential impact on local residents.

The dam's construction has been held up for decades due to the opposition of environmentalists, the Kayapo themselves, and other indigenous groups.

Petronas was scheduled to begin taking delivery of gas along the $500 million pipeline by the middle of this year, but construction has been held up for more than a year amid protests by environmentalists and villagers along the pipeline's proposed route.

Another proposal, to impose new standards for exposure to carcinogenic silica dust at construction sites, has been held up since February 2011.

In 2008, a 43-year-old woman died when riots broke out on Corfu over the planned construction of a landfill there; the project has been held up as locals mount court challenges.

According to a Hong Kong-based rights group she has been held on subversion charges after posting online essays attacking shoddy construction.

In the downtown Brooklyn area known as Atlantic Yards, a neighborhood almost equally devoid of vegetation due to the "development projects" of current Nets owner Bruce Ratner, Prokhorov will have to get past the no less stubborn Daniel Goldstein, the man who almost single-handedly has been holding up the construction of the stadium for the past five years.

People kicked and spat at the settlers as they emerged from the building under construction where they had been held, he said.

The statements operationalized barriers and facilitators that were derived from the interviews with the professionals who were included in the present study, as well as interviews with employees in the construction industry that had been held in 2006 in preparation for designing the HUC intervention [ 31].

He said workers may have smuggled in the explosives used in the attack during construction work and said a number of people had been held for questioning.

They've been held yearly.