Sentence examples for lavish stadium from inspiring English sources

The tumult starkly pointed out the festering tension here around public spending on lavish stadium projects.

IN READINESS for the Olympic games, Beijing is putting the finishing touches to a colossal makeover: the world's biggest airport terminal, skyscrapers, subway lines and lavish stadiums.

Predictions of the return of the mass protests against public spending on 12 lavish stadiums that had shaken the country in mid-2013 proved wrong.

So most money spent inside lavish stadiums flows to the pockets of players and owners, more often than not millionaires and billionaires, respectively.

Protesters in Brasília also tried to gather around the stadium where the national soccer teams of Brazil and Australia were slated to play, reflecting widespread anger over spending on lavish stadiums for the World Cup, which is scheduled to be held in Brazil in 2014, while many public hospitals and schools remain in deplorable condition.

The municipalities build lavish stadiums and things like a proposed "monument to the pisco sour".

The old Boston Patriots, many of them still living in the Boston area, still gather at reunions and for most home games at the new, lavish Gillette Stadium, which was built adjacent to Foxboro Stadium.

In other words, give us a lavish new stadium, but nevermind that we may not have a 2011 season because of how expensive new stadiums are.

It was financed by Arsenal, where Henry played from 1999 to 2007, and unveiled in 2011 outside the club's lavish new stadium.

And, in the N.F.L.'s showcase game, the Super Bowl, 1,200 ticket-holding fans were either displaced or denied seats at Jerry Jones's lavish Cowboys Stadium.

Protesters showed up by the thousands in Brazil's largest cities on Monday night in a remarkable display of strength for an agitation that had begun with small protests against bus-fare increases, then evolved into a broader movement by groups and individuals irate over a range of issues including the country's high cost of living and lavish new stadium projects.