Sentence examples for hostile to development from inspiring English sources

And criticism of the bill goes beyond those hostile to development.

Developers reinvented the idea in the free-market 1980s, but the Tories of the shires were more hostile to development than they were keen on market forces.

"The relentless sprawl of the 90's, and the resulting congestion, has made the outer areas more hostile to development," said James W. Hughes, the dean of the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University.

Last year, the Hawaii Supreme Court essentially ruled privatisation unconstitutional by finding that the state's civil-service act forbids moving to the private sector any jobs that have "traditionally and historically" been performed by public workers.Hawaii's powerful environmental groups are sceptical, if not hostile, to growth and development.

His whole psychology was hostile to the development in the Prussian administration or army of any real originality, new ideas, or willingness to take initiatives or accept individual responsibilities.

But in the modern era an unholy alliance between repressive Arab regimes and certain conservative Muslim scholars has led to the domination of certain interpretations of Islam that serve the governments but are hostile to human development -- particularly freedom of thought, women's empowerment and the accountability of governments to their people.

Changes in extracellular matrices with an increase in collagen I and fibroblasts have been detected in herniosis, allegedly considered "hostile to the development of malignancy throughout the body" [3].

The "sober reality" was twelve to fourteen hours of dreary, exhausting work, which many workers experienced as hostile to intellectual development.

Areas farther than 30 degrees from the equator (except in the vicinity of a warm current) are not normally conducive to tropical cyclone formation or strengthening, and areas more than 40 degrees from the equator are often very hostile to such development.

This realisation pushes us, as urban practitioners, to rethink the roles of architects and planners in a context where the government is at best indifferent and at worst hostile to the local development of neighbourhoods.

Though western heroes are often thought of as throwbacks hostile to newfangled technological developments (preferring spurs and canteens), photography is actually the cowboy's most loyal sidekick.