Houston's flatness and unboundedness -- it sprawls over a larger area than Los Angeles -- give it a theoretical quality, inviting developers and dreamers to imagine imposing schemes both greedy and utopian.
It was, in one view, a noble work of enlightenment; it was also a tyrannically imposed scheme without regard for the rights of custom established by Fenlanders over centuries.
I figured I'd neglected to water it, much like citizens, inattentive to civic and political responsibilities, have permitted Republicans to impose schemes that undermine democracy.
"We don't support the idea of bypassing the ICAO and unilaterally imposing a scheme that the rest of the world doesn't agree with .The commission has now decided to wait until 2013 before extending its emissions-trading scheme to non-EU airlines, by which time the ICAO may have reached a consensus among its members.
"It doesn't matter if you are for or against - the council is riding roughshod over the residents by imposing the scheme and the impact on the whole city is frightening," he said.
Yet what Grandage and Ashford achieve, along with an imposing design scheme and a formidable triple-threat ensemble, largely minimizes those flaws.
Brooks is no observational comedian; his very subject is people who take drastic steps to put some drama into their lives, to transform life by imposing theatrical schemes on them, and his films are themselves comedies that depend upon those schemes for their plots.
He spent most of his life mocking, battling, and deprecating the liberals' penchant for imposing tidy schemes on an untidy world--what he called "rationalism --and his challenge to theirationalism --and starationalism --and
The DUP leader stressed that she did "not impose this scheme on the people of Northern Ireland".
Mercifully, following a challenge by rail and ferry operators, the European commission now seems to have killed off ambitions to impose the scheme on travel within the EU.
