Sentence examples for harmful projects from inspiring English sources

Shamsi said the program is not only unconstitutional, but also a waste of law enforcement resources that could be channelled to more effective and less harmful projects.

Well-connected ministries were once able to bypass the environmental ministry, but now, Mr. Li said, it had set up "an impassable firewall" to block harmful projects.

Mr. Cronin said the environmental movement is entering a new era, in which the confrontations of the past — bringing big lawsuits against corporations to block environmentally harmful projects or to force polluters to clean up — no longer work.

Environmentalists worry that loss of critical habitat will weaken protection, that the FWS's long backlog will result in harmful projects going forward, and that the compensation scheme would bankrupt the FWS.

Congress should reject Peabody's cynical public relations ploys and shadowy legislative tactics, and prevent OPIC's and Ex-Im Bank's corporate welfare for environmentally and developmentally harmful projects.

The World Bank Safeguard policies were established 20 years ago in response to decades of civil society protests against harmful projects, including mega-dams in India's Narmada Valley.

The case centres on two media interviews the Neapolitan writer and activist gave in September 2013, in which he called the rail line a "useless and harmful project" and said it was "legitimate to sabotage" it.

The EU is constitutionally wedded to the outdated and harmful project of heedless economic growth and industrial over-development – at a time when we need to stop living as if we have three planets to spare and not hurtling ever faster over the precipice.

We are addicted to our phones not because we rely on them, but to the extent that we recruit them to a harmful project of self-avoidance.

Seven U.S.-based groups have already coalesced to urge the U.S. Export-Import Bank to publicly commit to rejecting any proposal for the financing of harmful coal projects near the Sundarbans and any other harmful fossil fuel projects in Bangladesh.

In the wake of this under-the-radar ruling, the cost of protecting a community from a harmful building project now lies not with the developer but with the local residents and taxpayers.