Sentence examples for naval building from inspiring English sources

The cabinet had agreed to an increased naval building programme for 1909-10.

He struggled to establish a policy of direct cash aid for Britain's naval building program, in return for a voice in imperial policies that affected Canada.

On weekends, the action moves to Lake Union Park, a 12-acre waterfront esplanade with a new green trail, a boat launch and an old naval building.

The naval building race is on and seven leading world naval powers have started construction of, or have appropriated funds for, approximately 500 warships, according to official United States Navy Department estimates.

Moreover, successive naval building programs provided further economic stimulus to the peripheral areas of the peninsula rather than the centre, Castile which, however, had the highest rates of taxation.

A number of other Congressmen greeted the idea with enthusiasm in the hope that a means might be found of forestalling the big new naval building program of the United States, as well as a general armaments race.

To fill the Biennale's main exhibition spaces – the vast Arsenale, a series of former naval buildings, and the central pavilion of the nearby Giardini – Chipperfield has invited 103 architects, artists, photographers and academics to contribute.

Many of the Georgian naval buildings still stand.

India has become increasingly concerned about China's naval ambitions and is desperately trying to catch up with its larger rival's rapid naval-building program.

Germany retaliated with a vast naval-building programme, the European arms race began, and in 1921 debt-ridden Britain conceded naval supremacy to the United States in the Washington treaty.

The proposed design was completed by 1918, but by then, the majority of naval construction efforts were diverted to building new U-boats.