Sentence examples for massive road from inspiring English sources

And, unfortunately for the nation, what Osborne actually announced was a massive road building plan, with a slew of old schemes plucked-off the shelves, dusted-off and re-presented.

The final breakdown in her relationship with the President came after he gave the green light to massive road and dam-building projects in the Amazon basin, and a plan she drafted for the sustainable management of the region was taken from her and handed to a business-friendly fellow minister.

During the past decade, Ethiopia has pursued a Chinese-style rush to develop its economy: locking up dissenters, crushing the opposition with a succession of 99% electoral victories, and building massive road, rail, agribusiness and hydropower schemes without pausing to conduct the necessary social and environmental impact assessments.

The impact of such a massive road system in an area the size of Delaware is staggering, and has serious political, economic and environmental implications.

This wasn't me trying to be profound or creative, this was me trying to quickly get through the monotony of filling out basic information on an application but then coming up against this massive road block.

But Sunsara Taylor gathered a crew of twenty-one fellow activists and embarked on a massive road trip New York to Charlotte, North Carolina, by way of Fargo, Wichita, and Jackson, Mississippi.

On the same day it announces a massive road-building programme, we also discover that dirty coal plants are going to be staying open for longer".

The government recently announced a massive road-building programme and figures suggest that from this £9.4bn investment we can expect to create 6,200 jobs.

Until 2005, he had never mentioned the subject, except to mock wind farms as "giant bird-blenders" and to demand "a massive road-building programme" in defiance of all environmental sense.

Osborne gave £250m worth of assistance and rebates to the most energy-intensive companies, scrapped a planned rise in fuel duty, announced a massive road-building scheme and hinted at a watering down of regulations to protect British wildlife.

The massive roads and distances in Lagos leave little room for foot traffic, and public transit (a single bus line and long-deferred light rail notwithstanding) is non-existent.Left to the mercy of the open market, I look over to a congregation of a dozen drivers revving the engines of their Suzuki motorcycles.