Sentence examples for opposition to development from inspiring English sources

Under the current system, they said, council members elected at large were unresponsive to local opposition to development and overly influenced by developers who were major contributors to their election campaigns.

But others say opposition to development is the issue.

Environmentalists insist their complaints are not based on knee-jerk opposition to development.

Mr. Stevens often expressed contempt for those he called "extreme environmentalists" for their opposition to development in Alaska.

But, Mr. Robbins and other real estate executives say, consistent opposition to development has stymied the full flowering of such relationships.

He said many of the development sites are ready to proceed and, because the area has few residences, there is little local opposition to development.

The example of the development of solar technology in Germany has amply shown that the initiative for experimenting with and developing this technology came from certain local and/or regional pockets in opposition to developments on a more central level, be it the federal or state government or the incumbent actors in the field of electricity supply [[7]].

As local people profit from renewable energy projects, and have a say in their planning and running, opposition to developments is avoided in an equitable way.

The styles that emerged there after World War II ran both parallel to and in opposition to developments in the United States, especially the scale of Abstract Expressionism and the material opulence of Minimalism.

After plans for the initial development became known, "the townspeople put up very strong opposition to the development -- actually to any development," Mr. Jarkow said.

But neighborhood opposition to new development could stall future development in New York City more than the credit crisis.