Sentence examples for powerhouse concept from inspiring English sources

Furious at being caught on the hop, Wakefield said the announcement exposed the Tories' "northern powerhouse" concept as empty rhetoric.

The northern powerhouse concept has been tarnished in recent weeks by delays in rail electrification projects and the mothballing of the SSI steelworks in Redcar.

First, we need to hear an early statement of support from her and her chancellor for the whole northern powerhouse concept.

"We've had newspaper briefing after newspaper briefing over the summer saying that the plug is about to be pulled on the northern powerhouse concept," said Burnham.

Greater Manchester's ten districts put their differences aside years ago, putting them in prime position when George Osborne dreamt up his 'northern powerhouse' concept and made GM the guinea pig for his devolution project last year.

Cridland urged northerners to take the powerhouse concept seriously, saying he would not have taken the 30-day-a-year chairmanship if he thought it was an empty gimmick.

While Sharia finance has been in pole position and halal has been the powerhouse driving the concept of an Islamic economic paradigm, this is about more than meat and money.

"I abhor the concept of Powerhouse," he told more than one reporter.

Sitting by the floor-to-ceiling windows of Mima, the Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, he conceded that the northern powerhouse was a "laudable" concept, despite its architect.

Though the Chancellor fired the gun on the Northern Powerhouse around a year ago, the concept has been the subject of conversation at conferences for longer.

But what exactly is the Northern Powerhouse? "It's a concept, rather than any actual, physical thing at the moment," explains Ed Cox of think tank IPPR North, who lives and works in Manchester.