Sentence examples for grandest projects in from inspiring English sources

Among Richard's grandest projects in the field of architecture was Westminster Hall, which was extensively rebuilt during his reign, perhaps spurred on by the completion in 1391 of John of Gaunt's magnificent hall at Kenilworth Castle.

His grandest project, conceived in 1974, remained a work in progress: a multichambered observatory built beneath the Roden Crater in the Painted Desert near Flagstaff, Arizona, employing the bowl-shaped caldera as a vast aperture for a skyspace.

One of Mizner's grandest projects for Boca was the creation of The Cloister Inn, a vast, slightly over-the-top hotel done in his signature quasi-Moorish style.

The Interstate Highway System, which bears Eisenhower's name and came out of his military understanding of how a modern highway system was critical to national defense, might in some minds be considered the grandest project inspired by any president in the 20th century except Franklin D. Roosevelt.

In the late 1990's, as fiscal trouble mounted, Mount Sinai's management was distracted by the long-running psychodrama of its grandest project -- merger with New York University Hospitals Center.

His grandest project, the Great Man-Made River, brought water from southern aquifers to the northern cities.

Now, Ackroyd has undertaken the grandest project of his career — his doorstop of doorstops.

Mr. Kelly, then a steamfitter, took her to his construction site, his grandest project: the 40th floor of 2 World Trade Center.

His policy was to keep the officers sweet with a cut from the smuggling revenues or a share of the contracts for his grandest project, the Itaipu hydroelectric plant built with Brazil on the Paraná.

Christians luckier than Muslims Free to protest, just a bit Time for a test ReprintsSimilar mutterings are being more often heard about where the money for the grandest public projects or foreign investments ends up.

He is planning "a community separator project on the grandest scale in the country" in eastern Connecticut.