Sentence examples for expensive developments from inspiring English sources

Worse, the dependence on the property tax encourages these mini-governments to compete with each other for expensive developments, which in turn reinforces white flight and suburban sprawl.

Eisenhower was primarily interested in deterring a nuclear attack and to that end promoted expensive developments in nuclear weaponry and long-range missiles.

There have been price cuts in some of the most expensive developments, and also some reconfiguring of newbuilds so that apartments are smaller and cheaper.

Marabou, which sits along the Elk River, is among a widening group of expensive developments in Western states that are preserving land.

Homes in these developments start at about $200,000, Mr. Keckeis said, but in more expensive developments north of the city they can sell for as much as $1 million.

Poorer people are being pushed further and further to London's outer boroughs, as these new, expensive developments replace social housing in places like Elephant, Lewisham, Peckham, Bow, Hackney.

Thanks to cloud-based application development platforms provided by familiar companies such as Salesforce.com, as well as less familiar ones like TrackVia and Mendix, citizen developers can get to work without the need for expensive development tools.

His focus on high-speed rail, which he shares with Schwarzenegger and Davis, is a focus not on expanding existing transport infrastructure, simply and rather stupidly perpetuating the old and increasingly expensive development pattern and the fossil fuel economy which underlies it, but developing a new path.

At $4.4 billion, Echelon Place would rank as the most expensive development in Las Vegas history — if not for the $7 billion the MGM Mirage is spending on CityCenter.

Investors were alarmed at ballooning costs, an expensive development on the Gulf Coast and Mr. Wynn's sometimes odd behavior, which included serenading Wall Street analysts with show tunes.

It would be the most expensive development project in India, and a third of the bill would be paid by Japanese public and private money.