Sentence examples for immense project from inspiring English sources

Instead, the immense project will not get under way for at least another year, and the feverish optimism it engendered here and across Zambia's Copperbelt region has evaporated.

Building a nuclear plant is an immense project, carrying a price tag of about $5 billion, lasting four or five years with peak employment of more than 2,000.

His immense project The Gates of Hell, out of which this and many of his other figures (including The Kiss) originate, was an attempt to recreate the portal to the underworld described in Dante's Inferno.

In 1984, when the Getty Trust commissioned the architect Richard Meier to design this immense project, the goal was to create a campus for the display, conservation, and study of high art; the Getty was not intended as a populist enterprise.

And there's plenty of reading to do with texts by Chris Kraus and Tan Lin, and with Peter Fend's minutely annotated collages, part of an immense project of news clips and e-mails detailing the effects of corporate power on ecology.

In its marriage of artistic ambition and economic practicality, this immense project was a bit like the Depression-era W.P.A. (Athens enjoyed full employment for nearly half a century after the work began; Plutarch, in his life of Pericles, wrote that the projects "divided and distributed surplus money to pretty well every age-group and type of person").

Caro doesn't shy away from the fact that in order to accomplish these immense projects Moses often had to evict thousands of people from their homes.

Alas for liberals, the tax debate isn't that simple, because it's taking place in the context of immense projected future deficits and a welfare state that seems unsustainable without substantial increases in revenue.

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But High Rock cannot afford the immense redevelopment project without significant financial help from the city and state, Mr. Fischer said.

A lot has changed since the band landed in Vegas and outside the immense Barangaroo project of the Star's main rival, James Packer, is growing into the sky.