• The main reason for these projects is not to develop primary power sources for jet-turbine powered aircraft, but to build small, highly efficient fuel cells that could be used to make greener airliners.

    ECONOMIST: Electric planes

  • The findings showed that China was the main beneficiary, with more than half of the projects - accounting for 91% of the 2011 investment - being located within its national boundaries.

    BBC: China leads on watershed protection investment

  • The damage will be felt only in the longer term, since the main effect may be to delay the start of big infrastructure projects, from roads to irrigation schemes.

    ECONOMIST: Thailand

  • Oku-noto no Aenokoto is an agricultural ritual transmitted from generation to generation by the rice farmers of the Noto Peninsula, which projects from Ishikawa prefecture in the centre of Japan s main island, Honshu.

    UNESCO: Culture

  • One of her main research projects looked at the relationship between self-control and grade-point average.

    NEWYORKER: Don��t!

  • But its main projects, in stable places like the United States, Canada and Chile, never seemed that risky in the first place.

    ECONOMIST: Mining mergers: Heavyweight metal | The

  • Its approval should make it easier for the government to compel landowners to sell up, allowing it to build much-needed highways across the main islands of Java and Sumatra, among other projects.

    ECONOMIST: Indonesia��s car market: Stuck in fifth gear | The

  • The projects in need of funding today concern five main areas: World Heritage (cultural and natural), intangible heritage, movable heritage (museums, archives, libraries), cultural industries and cultural policies.

    UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

  • Sinn Fein's Claire McGill's main concern lay with the lack of money to fund certain projects in order to meet the proposed targets.

    BBC: Enterprise Committee

  • One of Pombo's main projects in that job has been to rewrite the Endangered Species Act in a way that would aid companies like Pacific Lumber, environmental activists say, at the expense of threatened species.

    NPR: Signs of a Wider, Deeper Scandal in Congress

  • One of the main goals of Energy Points is to help businesses compare different types of projects.

    FORBES: Apples to Apples: Comparing Sustainability Projects' Cost And Environment Benefits

  • Since most emerging economies lack broad unemployment insurance, the main way they help the jobless is through labour-intensive government infrastructure projects as well as conditional cash transfers for the poorest.

    ECONOMIST: Unemployment

  • So too are various transport and construction projects: embarrassingly, the elaborate glass and metal roof for the main athletics stadium, designed by Santiago Calatrava, a renowned Spanish architect, may not be ready in time.

    ECONOMIST: A new democracy | The

  • The main objective of the survey is to determine the extent of content preservation, digitization projects, material at risk and general archive practices within broadcast institutions in Southern Africa, within the broader goal of ensuring that sound and audiovisual collections are properly stored and preserved for future generations.

    UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

  • Ideally, says a report prepared for an upcoming meeting on charities and terrorism under the auspices of the Financial Action Task Force, the world's main anti-money-laundering body, charities should document employees, projects and possible donors, as well as running field audits to ensure that money has not gone astray.

    ECONOMIST: Money, bombs and bin Laden | The

  • One main learning method that supports the learning of such skills and knowledge is group learning or thematic projects, which involves an inquiry-based collaborative work that addresses real-world issues and questions.

    UNESCO: EDUCATION

  • Though she fulfills the rules of the genre, with a more or less chronological guided tour through the sites (in France and elsewhere) and the sights (her movies, photographs, and art projects) of her life, her main order of business is love.

    NEWYORKER: The Beaches of Agn��s

  • Main funders were the Jubitz and Switzer Foundations, known for supporting left-wing anti-business environmental projects.

    FORBES: How Junk Science Distorts What We Read, And The Way We're Governed

  • It is still suffering for two main reasons - house building remains at an all time low and many of the larger government funded large projects, like the Titanic signature building, are nearing completion without similar work coming through.

    BBC: NI economy remains 'fragile'

  • Even later when family obligations led me to my longest job, as a science editor at the MIT Press, my main enthusiasm, done after hours and gratis, was in using my skills to help out projects having a chance of bringing about social change.

    FORBES: War Tax Resistance Today

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