Sentence examples for unpopular development from inspiring English sources

All are looking desperately to the councillors to save us from this highly unpopular development".

At the same time, the city reduced allowable densities in many neighborhoods that were troubled by illegal or unpopular development.

Chinese businesses were coming to dominate, especially in Myanmar's north, which the Chinese were tearing up to make way for unpopular development projects.

Ratner seems to have been less interested in using Gehry's architectural talent to best advantage than in trying to leverage his celebrity to make an unpopular development more palatable.

Convening a megacommunity, the authors suggest, could have helped Enel win over the locals.A megacommunity could offer a useful framework for a business embarking on a venture in an unfamiliar region or considering a potentially unpopular development.

In 2011, he warned MPs not to oppose plans to give some serving prisoners the vote, following a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights - a hugely unpopular development at Westminster.

The Review proposed that planning champions should be appointed across the country to oppose unpopular developments.

Removing these decisions from the responsibility of local councillors (or simply by circumventing the planning process) will either be seen as a wise attempt to force progress or a cynical attempt to avoid blame for unpopular developments.

This would cause "a lot of anger" when unpopular developments went ahead "on the say-so of a national quango reporting directly to ministers".

Wherever there is unpopular urban development, there is community opposition (How a council bent over backwards to prevent Tottenham taking flight, 31 October).

Less prominent has been comment on the exacerbation the bill represents of one of the most unpopular policy developments under the Labour government – increasing religious discrimination and privilege in our education system.