Sentence examples for massive reclamation from inspiring English sources

Though it was initially confined to a single compact establishment, Sands expanded with a massive reclamation project on which sprouted the Venetian, now Macau's largest casino.

The Bills, with a new coaching staff, released him after last season and, when he signed an incentive-laden contract to join the Patriots, he became part of a massive reclamation project by Coach Bill Belichick and the personnel man, Scott Pioli.

Massive reclamation of the area led to the creation of a wide strip of land, since occupied by commercial premises, warehousing, and the main rail line.

He even blocked any criticism of China's massive reclamation activities and establishment of military facilities in the Spratly chain of islands, where the Philippines controls up to nine land features, including Thitu Island.

As Peabody Energy teeters on the brink of bankruptcy, edging toward a Chapter II reorganization that will most likely allow it to walk away from massive reclamation and mine worker commitments, a flurry of poetic musings and giddy celebrations over of the death of Big Coal has begun to flow.

The tribunal also ruled against China's massive reclamation activities in the area, describing them as "incompatible with the obligations" of member states, especially because they "inflicted irreparable harm to the maritime environment" as well as "destroyed evidence of the natural condition of features" in the area.

Adm Harry Harris Jr told a congressional hearing that China's construction and military facilities are changing the operational landscape in the disputed South China Sea, where Beijing has undertaken a massive land reclamation effort to press its sweeping territorial claims.

After seven years of development, a small demonstration unit, powered by solar energy for extra sustainability, was installed last year at Marina Barrage, a dam completed in 2008 across the mouth of Marina Bay that has converted what is left of the old Singapore harbor after massive land reclamation, into a freshwater reservoir.

First is that it goes the way of Badia East, razed for high-rises, or Bar Beach, site of a massive land reclamation project that is turning nine square kilometres of Atlantic Ocean into what developers are touting as "the Manhattan of west Africa", a residential and commercial mini-city called Eko Atlantic.

In recent months, Beijing has undertaken a massive land reclamation project designed to increase the surface area of a number of contested shoals in the South China Sea and allow the construction of air fields and permanent military facilities.

The park was formed after years of reclamation and a massive earth moving project that shifted one of the biggest spoil heaps in Europe.