Sentence examples for sprawling construction projects from inspiring English sources

But over the past few years, amid sweeping changes to the city — newly sprouting pedestrian plazas, sprawling construction projects, myriad bicycle lanes — many say they have lost their way.

Mr Quinn said the sprawling construction business had been guilty of a "conspiracy of optimism".

About 25,000 Turkish workers flocked to Libya for sprawling construction jobs.

And it is experiencing extraordinary rates of urban growth: the Suzhou Industrial Park is a cathedral to consumerism, while the lights at Harmony Times Square illuminate a surrounding urban sprawl littered with construction projects.

They'd grown accustomed to the sight of giant construction projects, and to old provincial villages acquiring aureoles of sprawl, but this appeared to be an urban neighborhood in the middle of nowhere — a touch of Dubai on the plains of Don Quixote.

They'd grown accustomed to the sight of giant construction projects, and to old provincial villages acquiring aureoles of sprawl, but this appeared to be an urban neighborhood in the middle of nowhere a touch of Dubai on the plains of Don Quixote.

Many Istanbul residents lament the city's shrinking green space and rampant construction projects that have turned the mega-city on the Bosporus Strait into a concrete sprawl.

Construction projects stopped; city buses were halted.

Some construction projects are on hold.

Manufacturing companies were canceling construction projects.

Money launderers love construction projects.