Sentence examples for prestige project from inspiring English sources

This is no prestige project for the Chinese elite.

"It is a prestige project in a prestigious location".

Officials describe the aircraft-carrier programme partly as a prestige project.

"It is kind of a prestige project the government has gotten into," Mr. Karnad said.

Instead, the EPR prestige project has forced Areva to the brink of bankruptcy.

That was one of the reasons, she said, she canceled a Sarkozy prestige project, a museum of French history.

"Lest we forget, Saddam Hussein had a penchant for symbolic, colossal prestige projects.

PRESTIGE projects have a nasty habit of landing taxpayers with large bills.

In the meantime, however, he was denied the opportunity to work on some larger prestige projects.

This is already a problem, both for prestige projects and massive urban developments.

Chaidir, the speaker of Riau's provincial assembly, concedes that Riau's regents have a spendthrift penchant for prestige projects.