Sentence examples for ipc from inspiring English sources

Hundreds of amendments made since it emerged from committee have rendered it barely recognisable, says one, and time for debating its key clauses has been limited.Ministers, for their part, say the IPC will speed approval for much-needed infrastructure projects, in the process saving £300m a year in bureaucratic costs.

As for things like incinerators, late in life Labour created an Infrastructure Planning Commission (IPC), with powers to overrule local objections to projects of national importance.

More than 60 Labour MPs have signed a motion opposing the IPC, though the number who would actually vote against it in the House of Commons is thought to be lower.Critics of the change worry about democratic control giving way to what one MP calls a "cult of experts".

Only last year, for instance, it snapped up IPC magazines, a British publisher of such titles as Loaded and Marie Claire.Certainly, content is more readily transferred from America to Europe than around Europe.

Planned trials of pay-as-you-throw bin taxes are being cancelled, and the IPC wound up.

Some democrats mutter darkly about "Gosplan" and "Stalinism" and threaten the IPC with legal challenges to its decisions.

Mike Soutar, the former IPC Media editorial director, is to launch a magazine development company called Crash Test Media.

Erin McBride, a Liverpool teenager, won Britain's fifth gold medal of the IPC Athletics European Championships in Swansea on Wednesday.

People in the industry expect that Time Warner will soon sell IPC Media, its British magazine subsidiary.

The controversial centrepiece of the legislation transfers responsibility for approving big projects, such as airports, motorways and power stations, from ministers and local councils to an independent Infrastructure Planning Commission IPCC).

Qatar's original oil concession was granted to the Iraq Petroleum Company IPCC), a consortium of European and American firms.