Sentence examples for contesting development from inspiring English sources

They can be read simultaneously as signs of blight and disinvestment and as evidence of culture and creativity, sometimes contesting development, at others adorning it.

His most recent books are Contesting Development: Participatory Projects and Local Conflict Dynamics in Indonesia (with Patrick Barron and Rachael Diprose; Yale University Press, 2011), and History, Historians and Development Policy: A Necessary Dialogue (edited with C.A. Bayly, Vijayendra Rao and Simon Szreter; Manchester University Press, 2011).

"We haven't been contesting development on any of the clean sites.

Because of an editing error, an article in some editions on Tuesday about a last-minute bidding contest over development rights for the West Side railyards in Manhattan gave an outdated name for an investment bank that was to have been the anchor tenant for office towers planned by one bidder, Tishman Speyer Properties.

The OC Skateboarding League is a non-profit organization that supports school teams and individual skateboarding through contests, skills development and special events.

The announcement shows that the government accepts it must reach out to communities angered by its plan to deny homeowners the right to use trespass laws to contest fracking developments.

He also described the "international fight on climate change" as a contest for economic development space and stressed that the way forward for China was to put more effort into building a low-carbon economy.

That is the core of the problem: if the UK is taking part in a beauty contest for wind development investment, against some of the strongest economies in the world, then the letter from Tory MPs felt to many potential investors like a raspberry blown by the ruling political party.

Users began to take notice later that year after Tauberer was awarded the top prize in a Web development contest run by Technorati.com — the citation called GovTrack "School House Rock on steroids" — and a January 2005 New York Times story about the site provided an additional boost.

Development contests like this are always of interest to me.

We ask for employee ideas and hold contests for product development and R&D.