Sentence examples for developments on the back from inspiring English sources

Guy Tozzoli guided his black Mercedes sedan past a jumble of swaybacked old warehouses and manicured condominium developments on the back streets of Hoboken, N.J., winding his way toward the Holland Tunnel.

Like the West before it, China built its development on the back of dirty energy: petroleum burned by vehicles and coal burned in power plants and industrial facilities.

Lee says the new funding will be used towards expansion to new cities, and to further product development on the back-end.

Development is on the back foot.

Goyal, who serves as Minister for Coal, Power, and Renewable Energy under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, said that "India is embarking on most of its new development initiatives on the back of technology," and that "engagement with the United States has been very deep". Goyal met with U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz earlier in the week.

These developments put Salmond on the back foot.

I prefer to put development decisions on the backs of technologists rather than on businesspeople.

"On the other hand, Africa's 55 countries are hugely diverse, and any new development encounter arrives on the back of a very complex agrarian history and political economy".

I was doing product development, R&D, more on the back line.

Because the company experienced such rapid growth in its early days, it mostly focused its engineering resources on scaling the service and most of the actual product development remained somewhat on the back burner during that time.

"We believe that the government cannot afford any adverse economic developments at this juncture on the back of the still-looming threat of sovereign ratings downgrade by credit rating agencies," he said.