Sentence examples for scratch building from inspiring English sources

The infrastructure for the project was built from scratch; building materials, workers, capital and expertise all had to be imported.

Mr. Levy said he might transfer some Publicis Worldwide holdings to Fallon McElligott, but Mr. Fallon said his "inclination is toward starting from scratch, building 10 or 12 great offices in 10 or 12 world business centers".

He exerts himself mightily, takes on a heroic mantle of creation from scratch, building a universe that would rival the world-building of "Star Wars" but would add extra layers of fantasy by means of virtual-reality-like transformations.

While Renault-Nissan has led the way with its €27,000 Leaf, already on the market, with the cheaper Zoe to follow soon, BMW is one of the manufacturers that have decided to design an electric car from scratch, building it around new electric components rather than converting existing conventional cars.

"You have people building everything themselves, scratch building parts from common household items.

Kenan constructs The Lark's entire environment from scratch, building up the house wall-by-wall and window-by-window.

"It would have been cheaper to start building from scratch," says Roland Henkel, general manager of the Machrihanish Dunes project, "but we have talked to a lot of people in the community and found there was such affection and nostalgia for these old buildings that we wanted to keep a valuable aspect of the area's history".

To start building myself from scratch the way my doctors were suggesting.

"It would have been more economical to start over," Mr. Hertz said, but the house had one rare quality — stunning beach views — that would have been lost had they rebuilt from scratch, because building regulations now require larger setbacks.

"We know that Sharath is really good at taking an organization from scratch and building it, because that's what he did with Teaching Leaders," said Sally Morgan, an adviser to Absolute Return for Kids, a hedge-fund education charity that is one of STIR's main backers.

Although the Afghan government and its American partners are starting from scratch in building the Afghan government in Marja, which has had no government other than the Taliban for the last two years, there is no such thing as a clean slate in Afghanistan.