Sentences with phrase «far grander plans»

The Founding Fathers understood the educational prerequisites on which our democracy was based (having themselves designed it), and they had far grander plans than, say, beating the Soviets to the moon, or ensuring a literate workforce.

Like There Will Be Blood's Daniel Plainview, Woodcock is vampiric, feeding off the weak to further his grand plans.

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Swirling about him are Model 3 production issues, three investigations between two federal organizations, and a near never - ending cycle of new, grander ideas and plans that often buoy the stock in the short term, while threatening to further sap the company of much - needed cash down the line.

Finance minister Luis de Guindos ruled out further fiscal cuts needed to qualify for a eurozone rescue, leaving it unclear whether the European Central Bank can activate Europe's grand plan to stabilise markets.

In Bergamo, which for four centuries was ruled by Venice, Colleoni planned a gorgeous monument to himself, his own mausoleum, smaller yet grander by far than Napoleon's tomb in Paris.

So far, the project is a big book of grand ideas, without detailed plans, fleshed - out financing or the approval of several other government...

Lord Wood spoke about the various crises at the heart of the EU, whose current focus is the survival of the Euro rather than planning implementation of a further grand vision.

Controversial UK Government plans to introduce different pay rates for public sector workers in different parts of the UK have so far dominated today's meeting of the Welsh Grand Committee.

Further executing on his grand plan, his first date with Kerry Kennedy is a tour of one of his low - income complexes not far from the housing project (less successful than Andrew's own) started by her father in Bedford - Stuyvesant twenty years before.

The grand plan to dismantle charter schools is becoming more clear, particularly with the partnership with certain reporters, asinine accusations resulting from «intense scrutiny» of lease agreements (somehow there's time for this), and let's not forget the targeted personal attacks on certain charter school leaders — so far, only on those of color.

It's based on new «architecture» (GM officials won't go as far as to say the word «platform») that GM also uses for the Pontiac Grand Prix, Oldsmobile Intrigue and Chevrolet Malibu, which includes much of the car's new floor plan.

The media moghul also revealed they are firming up grand plans to make the most of the new technologies available and to further consolidate his company in the age of tablets.

If you \'re planning a trip to Grand Cayman, look no further of a place to stay.

The Masterplan is far more about reactions than any sort of grand plan, at least not at first.

Once settled in at my new journalistic home, ProPublica, I plan on digging in further on this and other instances in which the main factors exacerbating environmental threats are policies and practices that can be changed promptly, even as the grand challenge of limiting global warming is pursued.

«After struggling with unexplained infertility, God had a plan that was far grander than anything my husband and I could have ever asked for.