Sentence examples for onslaught of development from inspiring English sources
That did not shield them from the onslaught of development.
Confronting uninvited outsiders was part of a strategy to rebuff an "onslaught of development", he said.
The pending onslaught of development threatens to overwhelm their preservationist aspirations for the neighborhood.
It's a portrait of a picturesque old town in central China that is undone by the onslaught of development, and features a moblike building company: its bosses are greedy, scheming predators, their underlings thuggish killers.
But an onslaught of development since the mid-2000s has removed some of the housing stock once favored by young, single people and replaced it with larger condominiums typically appealing to families.
No one understands this better, I suspect, than McCall Smith himself, who I'm sure also recognises that the fragile customs, culture and ways of life that are the real stars of his No 1 Ladies Detective Agencyy books may not entirely survive the inevitable onslaught of development.
For the past three decades an onslaught of urban development, desertification, and pollution has been eating away at the country's once-endless sprawl of tiny farms.
The 17-year locust will not be seen again until 2018, but with the onslaught of sprawling development, its habitat is disappearing, zoologists say.
According to David Bandurski in his book Dragons in Diamond Village, the 138 urban villages in the inner-city area of Guangzhou alone have "nearly all suffered in one way or another under an onslaught of urban development in which their rights and interests were forfeit".
Well, there is the mix: a tantalizing touch of neighbourhood and community and the frustration of the relentless and impersonal onslaught of government condoned development.
That's right, Question Time has gotten a little giddy with all things pressy and regulatory so you will find no respite, no safe harbour and no refuge from the tireless onslaught of quasi-judicial developments here.
