Sentence examples for pet infrastructure from inspiring English sources

No sooner had Berlusconi been ­re-elected last year, than Lario was dismissing his pet infrastructure project, a bridge linking Sicily to the mainland, as a bad idea.

Judah P. Benjamin, a senator from Louisiana before the Civil War, spoke grandiosely in public about his pet infrastructure proposal: building a railway across a Mexican isthmus near Oaxaca, as a shortcut for passenger travel and cargo shipments between New Orleans and California.

He will promise to set aside new funds for pet projects, including backing transport infrastructure schemes such as HS3 and Europe's longest underground road tunnel, and developing technologies including driverless cars.

As she pledged to fight for the NHS, they repeatedly shouted PFI – a reference to the Private Finance Initiative, one of Labour's pet schemes by which public infrastructure projects, particularly hospitals, were funded with private capital at very high future costs.

The pet shop galahs are talking about infrastructure.

Another advantage of SPECT over PET is that no cyclotron and associated infrastructure and complex logistics are required on site and that many tracers are readily available in the form of kits.

It won't be easy to get the pet shop galahs talking about the quality of infrastructure decision-making.

J. Timothy Surlis, a senior managing director who represents Biscuits and Bath at the Lansco Corporation, a commercial brokerage firm, said the pet business had made major investments in its infrastructure to allay problems.

Staging the 12th African women's tournament in Cameroon has been a pet project of Biya, who has pledged to improve infrastructure and attract investment, but has attracted criticism for allowing rampant corruption to hinder the country's development.

Taking questions at a more downbeat White house press conference on his election defeat, Obama made similar, if equally familiar, calls for bipartisan deals, citing pet projects such as on trade liberalisation, tax reform and infrastructure investment.

The COTC is a novel infrastructure to integrate cancers that naturally develop in pet dogs into the development path of new human drugs.