Sentence examples for massive construction programme from inspiring English sources

A number of Western companies besides Balfour Beatty are involved in Abu Dhabi's massive construction programme, and British institutions such as the British Museum and Cranleigh School have also lent their names to developments on Saadiyat Island.

Proconsuls in India cemented British authority with neoclassical buildings; while George IV worked to fashion London into a truly imperial capital, with a massive construction programme that prefigured Haussmann's Paris.

Their legacies include massive construction programmes for housing, highways and higher education; huge pension obligations to public employees; the highest minimum wage in the country; vast entitlement programmes; and an extraordinarily sophisticated approach to municipal finance through a Byzantine network of semi-autonomous agencies that allows the surreptitious issuance of ever more debt.

After democratisation in 1994, there was a major inward flow of people into the urban core that could not be accommodated, despite a massive housing construction programme.

We demand that the skills of unemployed construction workers are utilised in a massive building programme of environmentally sound, cheap social housing.

The second is nothing short of a massive building programme of affordable homes.

During the 1990s, massive construction projects transformed central Berlin.

So the government's construction programme failed abjectly as a sanitation programme.

Millennium Dome, official name The O2, massive construction project and tourist attraction in Greenwich, London, England.

In a relentless construction programme, 80% of the town's roads were rebuilt.

But in comparison with the massive construction site that is China's eastern seaboard, they seem like isolated pockets.