Sentence examples for expansion build from inspiring English sources

In a city that has some of the richest people and most expensive real estate in the world, well-off homeowners who have exhausted the traditional methods of home expansion — build up, or build out — are enthusiastically branching out the only other way possible: down.

This expansion builds on an existing area of strength for the school.

But to attract those investors, the company promised to undertake a rapid expansion built on optimistic assumptions.

The latest advance on the speed of universal expansion builds on all these elements in a century of cosmological discovery.

But whatever the reason for the Fed's nervousness, a drying-up of credit is dangerous for an expansion built on investment and easy access to capital.

New roads and electrical power networks paved the way for post-World War II economic expansion built around the automobile and the suburban home.

A1 Record oil prices are slowing the economy but not enough to derail an expansion built upon the roaring housing market and robust consumer demand, data from several reports showed.

Walter Johnson's "River of Dark Dreams" shows how the Cotton Kingdom of the 19th-century Deep South, far from being a backward outpost of feudalism, was a dynamic engine of capitalist expansion built on enslaved labor.

Congress and society at large, despite a record-breaking economic expansion built in part on an explosion of foreign trade, have less enthusiasm for exchanging goods and services with the world than they did when he first took office, Mr. Clinton said.

Trudeau's green credentials have also been roiled by his government's efforts to get a major pipeline expansion built.

Lynda Weatherman, president and CEO of the EDC of Florida's Space Coast, said the expansion "builds upon a community known for its space legac... for the next generation of space technology development".