Sentences with phrase «ambitious scheme»

By the first week of April, however, it was clear that the weary and impoverished French public lacked any appetite for ambitious schemes to restore the glory of the empire.

Some of the most ambitious schemes cross national boundaries: for example, there is a corridor linking the massive game reserves of Masai Mara in Kenya and the Serengeti across the border in Tanzania.

Ryan and Ways and Means Committee Chair Kevin Brady later hatched a conceptually ambitious scheme to replace the corporate income tax with a 20 percent destination - based cash flow tax.

Some of his more ambitious schemes involve staging his own assassination to revive the practice of hanging, attempting to murder Mikhail Gorbachev and — ultimately — declaring himself Lord Protector of Britain.

«One can't avoid the conclusion that many ambitious schemes for road expansion are veering dangerously off - track,» said Dr Alamgir.

Two similarly ambitious schemes showering money on a single topic, called Flagship projects, have been underway in the European Union since 2014.

Rees continued to direct the Arnolfini until 1986, after which he worked as an arts management consultant, most notably advising Ipswich borough council on a charac teristically ambitious scheme - sadly unfulfilled - for a European visual arts centre.

One of the most important and ambitious schemes ever launched by the Art Fund, the initiative allocated # 1 million each to five successful partnerships between UK museums and contemporary art organisations, to fund the creation of collections of international contemporary art over a period of five years, thus encouraging a radical change in the scale and ambition of contemporary art collecting in the UK.

The most ambitious scheme is that developed by the «Group of Twenty» banks, which is known as Continuous Linked Settlement.

The ambitious scheme will see the Canadian firm partner with mining specialists Bitfury, who will provide the hardware, software, and maintenance.

Tony Blair and Paddy Ashdown last night astonished their parties by announcing an ambitious scheme to extend cross-party co-operation.

In this second instalment of our two - part data special we look at an ambitious scheme to uncover medical secrets in the numbers of everyday life

These days physicists are talking about a theory of everything, an ambitious scheme that would unite the description of all forces and particles into one seamless overarching framework.

The National Business Consortium for the Gifted and Talented, as the group called itself, proposed to carry out an ambitious scheme incorporating one of the new President's major themes — the enlistment of the national business community in «partnerships» with those championing important social causes, in this case the advancement of programs for gifted schoolchildren.

Leeds City Council has invested # 45 million as part of an ambitious scheme with Wellspring Academy Trust to transform specialist education across the city.

The company will make the smartphone under Government's «Make in India» ambitious scheme.

He developed numerous and ambitious schemes for mechanical sculptures and performances involving military hardware, fire, smoke, light and amplified sound.

A number of wealthier countries, led by Germany, have promised US$ 10 billion to the Africa Renewable Energy Initiative — an ambitious scheme to provide much - needed clean energy across the continent.

It should be noted, of course, that Solar Century is in the business of selling solar — so while it was in their interests to push for an ambitious scheme before it was launched — now the money is available, they quite sensibly want to sell this scheme to potential customers.