Sentence examples for of national development from inspiring English sources

Women's health was identified as a crucial aspect of national development.

In 1986, Lee's minister of national development, an architect named Teh Cheang Wan, was investigated for accepting kickbacks from two real-estate developers.

It is no longer a society formed on the values of the anti-colonial movement or of the Nehruvian period of national development.

Taking over as "president-for-life" after his father's death, Baby Doc Duvalier's rule was characterized by greed and domestic neglect, resulting in a paralysis of national development.

Shortly after independence, Zambia embarked on a program of national development planning the Transitional Development Plan preceding the First National Development Plan of 1966 71.

Alison has undertaken a variety of national development roles for the charity, creating new initiatives to open up opportunities for under-represented groups to benefit from the power of PE and sport.

A long unexplained leave of absence by Ian Khama, Mogae's ally and vice president, ended in August; Khama returned to office with enhanced powers to improve interministerial coordination and financial accountability of national development projects.

It proposed some other targets: within a decade, 30% of productive land should be in black hands; at least 40% of directors of listed firms should be black; and at least 50% of the loans on the books of national development-finance institutions should be to black-owned companies.

This study is funded by Ministry of National Development for the project "To ensure self-sufficiency of safe seafood for Singapore through the development of aquaculture genomic tools for marker-assisted selective breeding of tropical marine foodfish".

Authorities say digging up Bukit Brown for the road will ease congestion from the Pan-Island Expressway, the first step towards further development of the area: the Ministry of National Development MNDD) is considering converting all of Bukit Brown into housing by 2030.

"We will need to optimize land use, whether it is though reclamation, building upwards or using subterranean space," Minister of National Development Mah Bow Tan said recently, in describing the plans for population growth.