Sentence examples for science powerhouse from inspiring English sources

A Northern Science Powerhouse?

In 2006, a 15-year-plan announced that China would become a "science powerhouse" by 2020.

As for Mr. Snowden's technological needs, the government has ambitions to make Ecuador a technology and science powerhouse.

Ranked by U.S. News and World Report as the country's top "up-and-coming" university, UMBC is now a math and science powerhouse whose president was profiled on "60 Minutes" in 2011.

Take the "Crick of the north" (a term coined by the chancellor to express his desire for a science powerhouse to rival London's £700m Francis Crick Institute) – £200m for this has primarily gone to Manchester which, as has been noted, is close to George Osborne's own constituency.

Steve Kay and Peter Schultz aim to focus basic science powerhouse on translational medicine.

FOR years, prestigious scientific competitions like the Intel Science Talent Search (more familiar by its former name, the Westinghouse program) were dominated by high school students from such science powerhouses as Stuyvesant, Bronx Science, Brooklyn Tech and some Long Island schools.

Today they are science powerhouses, and the proportion of private-school girls going on to university has risen from 9% in 1961 to 92% today.Three management lessons can be drawn from the private schools' revival.

It "intends to translate into Russian science nonfiction books from abroad, including children's literature, publish Russian science authors, and organize science festivals in the hinterlands, far from the science powerhouses of Moscow, St .Petersburg, and Novosibirsk".

Other science powerhouses planning reductions include Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, where officials plan to reduce faculty through attrition but say they might have to lay off professors if the economy doesn't improve.

After recalibrating its aspirations to the size of its war chest, the foundation now intends to translate into Russian science nonfiction books from abroad, including children's literature, publish Russian science authors, and organize science festivals in the hinterlands, far from the science powerhouses of Moscow, St .Petersburg, and Novosibirsk.