Sentence examples for deter development from inspiring English sources

Islandia officials wanted to build the road to deter preservation efforts, not to deter development.

Last year the United States blocked attempts to set guidelines, saying the proposals would not deter development of biological weapons.

But these shortcomings should neither blind us to the positives, nor deter development actors – be they campaign groups or traditional bodies – from trying to harness what was good about Kony 2012 for their own ends.

The Gowanus was added to the federal Superfund list in 2010 over the objections of the Bloomberg administration, which feared that the designation would deter development and had proposed a streamlined cleanup that it would help oversee.

Neighborhood lore, at least as related by an oft-cited local history, has it that "Dumbo," an acronym for Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass, was coined in the late 1970s by a few artists hoping that an odd name would deter development.

And every day my mailbox is inundated with appeals to help deter development that would forever despoil places such as Grand Canyon National Park.

Mr. Markowitz cited the rash of condominium construction nearby as evidence that the detention center has not deterred development.

Robert Janes noted that another of his clients, Grassy Narrows, has successfully deterred development while fighting their legal battle "for 12, 13 years".

"There's a perception that income taxes deter economic development and growth.

But such problems are not deterring developers like Nicholas Sprayregen, who has invested $30 million in 18 contiguous parcels for a future mixed-use development.

"It will hamper and deter future development," he wrote.