Keeping these stakeholders and players up-to-date from the beginning meant ensuring ownership while including them as key partners who could engender trust, argue for the project, and defend the project should local opposition arise.
As the animals were flown in on several flights, Mr. van Houven found himself defending the project.
You have no problem with me.' " Mr. Breslin estimates he has spent over $4 million meeting environmental study requirements and defending the project in lawsuits.
Collins has long been the most enthusiastic, and persuasive, public champion of genomics, from the time when he was selling the Human Genome Project to Congress and defending the project against private-sector competition.
The importance of presenting and defending their project at the end of this course was emphasized repeatedly.
The projections from Mr. Cuomo's aides last week included discounts for local commuters, but their toll would still have gone up to $8.40, from $3. Until Friday, Mr. Cuomo and his administration had been defending the projected tolls.
And they defend the project's environmental contributions, including the 100-megawatt solar project.
If you'd recently taken on the weighty assignment of directing two movies adapted from J. R. R. Tolkien's "Hobbit," then defended that project during a potentially catastrophic labor crisis, you might be under some stress, too.
A spokesman for HS2 Ltd defended the project.
But Mr. Spano defends the project.
