Sentence examples for turnkey from inspiring English sources

GE began to offer "turnkey" contracts to utilities, in which it delivered an entire nuclear plant for a fixed price.

Implementing a "turnkey solution" for a dot.com takes around 12 weeks, although the effort needed to integrate with the back office of traditional retailers, trading online for the first time, can be considerably greater.

Well-intentioned but labyrinthine procedures designed to eliminate corruption in procurement and the allocation of environmental permits often end up causing delays instead.Mr Hausmann argues that bringing in the private sector as a risk partner in PPPs, rather than as an old-fashioned contractor for turnkey projects (as in the United States), adds another layer of complexity.

He says his own concerns about this practice were ignored by the intelligence community, and so he chose to make some information about PRISM public in the hope it will prevent the development of what he calls a "turnkey tyranny", run by a secretive and unaccountable intelligence bureaucracy.America's intelligence community is clearly none too pleased with Mr Snowden's revelations.

Except if, say, you wanted to hang out for a while at the pad of a wealthy businessman, but hadn't previously paid the $16,500 £10,7600) entry fee – last year, one venture capitalist asked 120 guests to pay this amount for entrance to his luxurious "turnkey camp", where models were reportedly flown in to "keep guests company".

Although no money is exchanged at Burning Man, services can be paid for before and after, and exclusive "turnkey camps" (translation: civilians not welcome) are growing in number.

A phenomenon of recent years has been the turnkey or package contract, in which the contractor undertakes to finance, design, specify, construct, and commission a project in its entirety.

Wasserman insisted that he have absolute control of an event if it was at his home; every event was a "turnkey" operation, Strauss said — all the recipient had to do was show up to collect the precise amount that Wasserman had said would be raised.

We want frictionless, "turnkey" solutions to the major difficulties of the world — hunger, disease, poverty.

He used a phrase that has come up before: "turnkey tyranny".

Working from a story by Catherine Breillat, Pialat brings to life a teeming, high-relief throng of characters, including a coldly brilliant schlub of a crime boss, an old turnkey whose heart and mind are still in wartime Vietnam, and a fancy prostitute (Sandrine Bonnaire).