It had shown the city had the "the infrastructure, facilities and ambition to compete on a world scale and that is something we should celebrate".
Shell foresees a gas processing plant and two side-by-side pipelines across the Andes toward Pisco, where Shell sees scope for a world-scale petrochemicals park.
Meanwhile brighter prospects loom eastwards as BP lays the groundwork for a second world-scale plant at their BP Zhuhai site in Guangdong Province, China.
Second, a scheme to transfer direct ownership of shares in RBS and Lloyds from the state to 50 million adults on the National Insurance register probably requires the kind of massive IT project which the public sector has a history of bungling on a world-class scale.
By finding a hero who rises from shacks and degradation, the film reflects a surprising new consensus that even as slums proliferate around the world at a greater scale than ever before, they could, with the right mix of policies, be the launching pads for upward mobility rather than dead-ends.
Why is it that so few women have changed the world on a massive scale in the same way that men have?
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Indeed, far from reducing crime, prohibition has fostered gangsterism on a scale that the world has never seen before.
Given the stakes at hand in a world with no rookie wage scale, you would think that teams would become more judicious over time.
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Another example from the medical device world, on a smaller scale: A Huthwaite-trained salesman set out to sell back braces to a doctor who was opposed to the use of braces.
It was first used as a large-scale process during World War II for the recovery of uranium from its ores.
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And much like social media, the impact that direct marketing has had on our cultural landscape and business world has been on a global scale.
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Good programs, however, that do customize for these different learning needs and lead to increased student engagement and time on task, should be easier to scale in a digital world as opposed to an analog one.
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It's also easy to overlook the damage inflicted on local ecosystems and economies -- a large portion of which are in the developing world -- as a consequence of current industrial-scale agriculture practices.
The arts centre in Cardiff Bay aims to provide a new world-class stage for full scale ballet, opera, musical theatre and dance.
So let us work together for the worldwide reduction of interest rates and a scale of stimulus round the world equal to the depth of the recession and the dimensions of the recovery we must make.
Applicants are asked to submit technology-based projects that could have a large-scale impact on a problem facing the people today and make the world a better place.
What is destroying the world's reefs on such a massive scale is a phenomenon known as bleaching.
With this mentality, the outsourcing market will continue to expand as corporations are required to source materials, talent and innovation from anywhere in the world in order to compete on a global scale.
Recognition that it was a full-scale war, France's worst conflict since the second world war, came only with a vote by the National Assembly in 1999, some 37 years after Algeria's independence.
Apple ( AAPL - news - people ) in an increasingly quality-oriented app world, not a browser world, then you have to do something to move up on the value scale, " says Doctor, adding: "It seems to me that part of Google's strategic thinking is that it is becoming a more quality-oriented news world.
There have been a lot of changes in the digital world recently, which is a perfectly accurate observation but fails to present the full scale of the transformation.
"This movie is a fun way to share the atomic-scale world, " Heinrich said.
These advancements have resulted in innovative new ways to engage people at scale and opened up a whole new world of opportunity for nonprofits to benefit.
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Enphase Energy has made a mark in the world of solar by developing small scale inverters called microinverters that make installation easier and improve the performance of rooftop solar panels.
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The Spanish Scientific Research Council (CSIC), who carried out the study, believe the find could practically double the number of amphibians known in the world if the results are extrapolated at a global scale.
Farmers buy inputs and sell crops on a scale that makes sense only if there are world markets for them.
The home of a world-class collection of premium brands, AOL creates original content that engages audiences on a local and global scale.
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Earlier this year, more than a hundred signed a letter to the World Trade Organization, urging it to scale back subsidies to the fishing sector.
G8 can take a global lead both in making the world aware of the scale of the problem and in proposing ways to tackle them.
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