Just as he said, this became a classic example of project escalation -- like when you go to hang a mirror and end up buying a boat.
She gave the example of a windfarm construction project in her South Thanet constituency, which she said was "much more about heavy engineering than... traditional green jobs".
One example of a shovel-ready project is the Gallows Road-Lee Highway intersection in the notoriously traffic-clogged suburbs of Northern Virginia outside Washington, D.
He highlighted Toronto's own "tower renewal" project, retrofitting buildings in a run-down area of town that he hopes will be an example of a carbon-neutral urban renewal project that can be applicable elsewhere.
The best example of this effort is the Prevention Project Dunkelfeld in Germany, supported financially by private donation.
The MVP project is an example of how increased financing for global health has stimulated new waves of entrepreneurial activity.
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To Petraeus and his advisers, however, the project presented a prime example of adaptive learning.
The Microsoft example is a project that came out of the test group.
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His project is one more example of shifting relations between Turkey and Armenia.
"The Conservative Defeat Project is yet another example of the Republican establishment's hostility towards its conservative base, " Matt Hoskins, executive director of the Senate Conservatives Fund group, said in a statement on Sunday.
One current example is a British-American project to build a new armoured vehicle capable of very sophisticated reconnaissance.
In Greater Yellowstone, for example, Predator Project found that more than two-thirds (22 out of 30) of the human-caused mortalities of the Yellowstone wolves have occurred outside of the national park, even though the wolves have spent the majority of their lives within the park's borders.
Other studies that are part of the same project are looking for flame retardants and pesticides, for example.
New Labour, for example, has been rescued from the possible embarrassment of the collapse of the Millennium Dome project by generous sponsorship from big firms such as Tesco and British Telecom.
When candidates say in an interview that they led a project or campaign, for example, Siegel asks them to explain the details of how they did it.
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Cearley points to IBM's project to modernize the State Bank of Vietnam's infrastructure as an example of the kind of business whose growth isn't like to slow.
For example, the Department of Transportation took months off the timeline to approve the Whittier Bridge Replacement project in Massachusetts by working with the state government and doing concurrent project reviews.
To orchestrate his 1993 Project to Extend the Great Wall of China by 10, 000 Meters, for example, he and some assistants suspended approximately six miles of fuse in the Gobi desert, beginning where the Great Wall ended.
In the Sakhalin-1 project, for example, Rosneft and ExxonMobil are among five owners in an oil and gas project off the east coast of Russia, north of Japan.
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In considering historical examples that might serve as a guiding light out of the current quandary, it might seem ironic that perhaps the best example is found in the original European project itself.
For example, in 2006, Russian environmental officials said that the owners of the huge Sakhalin-2 integrated oil and gas project had violated a number of environmental regulations.
For example, in an intriguing research project with my (rather exceptional) PhD student Amandine Ody, we asked lots of people in the Champagne industry whether different Champagne houses paid different prices for a kilogram of their raw material: grapes.
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Rail Runner is still bedding down - there are more stations due to open in the future for example - but the commuters we spoke to as we travelled between Albuquerque and Santa Fe were all keen supporters of the project.
Of course, the purple Rhyme was a different example but with a similar goal -- it was a special project where Verizon wanted to see if it could make a phone that'd get away from the hyper-masculine Droid aura, and the color was chosen through studies.
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