Sentence examples for permit the building from inspiring English sources

More than 440 people were killed when they refused to move and permit the building of a hydroelectric dam.

Dubbed 'densification zones', these sites would permit the building of homes in light industrial areas, freeing up brownfield sites.

Except in Portland and Minneapolis, each local government is free to make its own decisions about whether to permit the building of a new office block or shopping mall, regardless of any cost the decision imposes on neighbours.

Voters in Inglewood, a racially diverse working-class suburb of Los Angeles, have soundly rejected a ballot initiative to permit the building of a 60-acre Wal-Mart shopping complex exempt from virtually all state and local regulation.

It must realize that no matter how many tanks it sends to the West Bank, only a commitment to withdraw from occupied lands and permit the building of a Palestinian state, in return for normal relations with its Arab neighbors, offers a way out.

Israel must permit the building of new housing estates and factories; and allow access to ports and airports for international trade.

Mr. McCuen said that the ultimate value of the property would depend, in part, on whether the Landmarks Preservation Commission would permit the buildings to be demolished and rebuilt as a larger structure.

In permitting the building of Sizewell B, the Tory governments of the 1980s and 1990s displayed an ignorance and frivolity that is almost unequalled.

Despite accepting a moratorium on permitting the building or expansion of Jewish settlements in the West Bank in 2011, he is now allowing them to be built at the fastest rate for many years.

In the summer of 2010 he reacted to plans to build a mosque in lower Manhattan by saying that American Muslims should not be allowed to do so until Saudi Arabia permitted the building of churches and synagogues.

The six-over-one windows have been replaced with standard-issue one-over-ones, but on the other hand, the demolition of the el has permitted the building to breathe.