An EU-led donor conference agreed on Wednesday to provide €3.25bn (£2.7bn) to fund a sweeping development plan for Mali, but European donors made clear that the interim government must live up to its promises to implement democratic and social reforms in exchange for the international lifeline.
Preservation advocates point out that Staten Island has hundreds of 19th- and even 18th-century homes from its days as a landscape of farm and fishing villages — largely because Staten Island escaped sweeping development until the opening of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in 1964.
This tendency is growing now because of sweeping development of technologies for "Green Mobility", Fig. 5.
The furfural process and the processes regarding its by-products have undergone sweeping developments, and is based on chemical insight they have now reached a stunning degree of sophistication.
He insisted that it would lead to sweeping economic development along the neighborhood's tawdry beachfront and commercial blocks.
By the 1990's, the development sweeping across suburban New Jersey had engulfed Piscataway.
"With bloody extreme-Islamist developments sweeping Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Libya, Egypt, Tunisia and other countries, the Arab street, the elite in particular, and intellectuals across the world are now convinced that Arabs will have no stability while the Saudi royal family exists".
To make way for the sweeping new development -- a $500 million to $750 million project that will ultimately include a convention center, new hotels and shopping zones, as well as numerous parks and ponds -- the city used its power of eminent domain to buy and demolish dozens of motels and shops: essentially, the entire downtown area, except the casinos.
This is how it is all around here now days: the rural economy is booming, development is sweeping over the South Indian countryside like a wave, and villagers are being forced into choices they would rather not have to make.
Wanda Rushing, a professor at the University of Memphis and an expert on urban change in the South, said bike improvements were of a piece with a development model sweeping the region: bolstering transportation infrastructure and population density in the inner city.
Sweeping tar sands oil development is not a foregone conclusion.
