The bank would function something like a domestic World Bank, financing large-scale undertakings like subways, airports and harbor improvements.
Crowd-funded projects can range in size from local community projects like record shops, art exhibits, skate parks, parades and small events to large-scale undertakings such as the development of new books, films, apps, video games, TV shows and software products.
To maximize the benefits of the single market it is essential that business and industry, and specifically medium- and small-scale undertakings, should be able to effect transfers between the various parts of the Community reliably and cheaply.
His projects range from small joys shooting his own socks off with a homemade bazooka to large-scale architectural undertakings like building an apocalypse-proof underground bunker.
The scale of these undertakings recalls the early part of the last century in America, when the country was confidently pointed toward the future.
Where Mao and Stalin succumbed to the sheer scale of their undertakings, Kim Jong-il, and his father, Kim Il-sung, before him, addressed a more manageable canvas and "created one giant Potemkin village," in the words of Andrew Natsios, who visited North Korea during the the famine years of the nineties as an officer of the humanitarian organization World Vision.
Ambitious undertakings like scale model-train recreations or building the Taj Mahal are absorbing preoccupations that provide a lifelong sense of fulfillment, but they are ultimately just distractions, skeletal architectures utilized to immure life with a modicum of manageability.
Since the 1960s, undertakings of such scale have been unfashionable and unaffordable in this country..
Since the 1960s, undertakings of such scale have been unfashionable and unaffordable in this country.
Previously, capital investments on such a scale had exclusively been governmental undertakings.
The little marble "Mercure" (1741) of Jean-Baptiste Pigalle is almost wholly Berninian, except in its intimacy and deliberate unpretentiousness; even in Pigalle's most ambitious undertakings, the relative scale of the figures is much reduced and the whole composition opened up, in contrast to Bernini's tombs.
