Sentence examples for projects counter from inspiring English sources

Supporters of these projects counter that beaches are infrastructure — just like roads, bridges and sewer systems — that must be maintained.

The last days of the lame-duck legislature have turned into a flurry of pleas for pet projects, countered by pleas by Governor-elect James E. McGreevey to stem state spending.

Mr. Cohen, whose organization's members have sometimes supported neighborhood-improvement groups in opposing market-rate housing projects, countered that the city should allow developers to build apartments only after the city has extracted the maximum possible fees to pay for subsidized units.

In the collaborative management of the region by the Saudis and the West in pursuit of the many western projects (countering socialism, Ba'athism, Nasserism, Soviet and Iranian influence), western politicians have highlighted their chosen reading of Saudi Arabia (wealth, modernization and influence), but they chose to ignore the Wahhabist impulse.

NGOs and environmentalists who requested an EIA be carried out for the planned project countered this statement.

But a group of Indian state-owned banks and financial institutions, with $1.4 billion committed to the project, countered with challenges to asset sales by Dabhol and with other legal obstacles.

In 2011 the ACLU started its Don't Filter Me project, countering LGBT-related internet censorship in public schools in the United States.

From Alfred Einstein's fateful fall 1939 letter warning Roosevelt that that the atom could be split to create a new order of weaponry of vastly destructive potential to the project's direction by UC Berkeley's Robert Oppenheimer, the Bomb was a left of center, anti-fascist project countering the perceived threat from Nazi Germany.

As countries and the World Bank increase spending on major infrastructural projects to counter the economic crisis, the conflicts are expected to grow.

Both the Radical Middle Way (a government-funded platform to allow preachers of international renown to speak with young British Muslims) and the "pathfinder" projects to counter radicalisation in local communities were started last year.

And because the new real estate projects run counter to traditional Long Island subdivisions of single-family homes separating residential areas from businesses, Mr. Wang will be all the more reliant on reservoirs of good will from local politicians and the community, Mr. Ryan said.