Sentences with phrase «grand experiment»

They can also be considered grand experiments in the future of Uber.

Sarah Douglas reports that Christie's grand experiment with Haunch of Venison has lost the original founders of the gallery after losing some other important personnel recruited along the way:

Grand experiments on both ends, for the U.S. and for Japan.

That would be a rather grand experiment in «eco-engineering» akin to growing crops in a desert, with the same sort of attendant risks.

As the only Microsoft - branded Windows RT hardware to launch with the new operating system (Windows 8 launches this week as well), the tablet serves as ambassador and flagship for the touch - focused, wildly risky Windows grand experiment.

It regarded the initial $ 50 - million investment as a grand experiment, lessons from which would be applied when expanding to other developed markets.

The grand experiment was over — just as much of Johnson's new merchandise was beginning to appear.

We couldn't have written a master rule book even if we wanted to for an enterprise that was very much a grand experiment we fervently hoped would become a self - sustaining and organic ecosystem.

After all, in the minor leagues, the Saints were part of a grand experiment to prove that town - based teams could once again flourish — that is, without major - league teams» paying the bills.

This could change the way people perceive automated driving systems and serve as a model for other companies as the world embarks on its grand experiment with self - driving cars.

If the Fed and the Government had not printed trillions starting in 2008, Amazon's grand experiment would have expired.

After witnessing unconventional monetary policies push financial markets to new heights, investors seem to be losing faith in this grand experiment.

One week after Taylor Swift withdrew her entire catalog from Spotify, dismissing the music - streaming service and calling it «a bit like a grand experiment,» the company's founder is fighting back.

Only those living in the gated moral world of elite America can possibly imagine that our grand experiment in sexual liberation has not come at a great cost to the most vulnerable.

Its no surprise his life is falling apart after announcing his grand experiment.

The wealthy and the religious have been fighting ever since to destroy this grand experiment.

Jesus» return could mean the end of God's agony and ecstasy in his grand experiment with human freedom.

Your greed has ruined this grand experiment for all of us, at least within our own borders.

Even worse, if you believe the Fielder contract was predicated on the idea that Cabrera could play third base, the grand experiment backfired, even when it worked.

Not because its bundled - together community of middle - class professionals, asylum seekers and hard working immigrants sum up the charming characteristics of the capital, which tourists usually find so disarming and Londoners secretly know makes London the grandest experiment on earth.

«We are about to undertake a grand experiment, to test whether or not we can set aside politics, to test whether we can shed our decades of old pessimism, an affinity for status quo, and instead embrace the innovative, big thinking, risk taking, progressive approach that defines the great cities of this world,» Walsh said.

«In the face of climate change, the Adirondack Park, as a grand experiment in protecting an intact ecosystem while balancing the economic needs of its residents, is more important than ever before,» she said.

In his victory speech Tuesday night, Walsh said his administration was undertaking a «grand experiment» to set aside politics and develop policies that will benefit city residents.

Many liberals are skeptical of Walsh's claim that Syracuse is entering the «grand experiment» of nonpartisanship, citing the Walsh family's Republican legacy.

He says his victory will be a «grand experiment» in non-partisan governing, (whatever that means).

He is pledging a «grand experiment» in non-partisan government.

During his victory party at the Hotel Syracuse this November, Walsh promised a «grand experiment» to «test whether or not we can set aside politics and instead work together.»

Obama's HUD called this housing suit a «grand experiment» and if he can steamroll Westchester, he'll be coming for Nassau and Suffolk Counties next.

A grand experiment is about to begin in English schools: computer science will join the three Rs as the fourth core subject for kids as young as 5

«In many ways, this has been a grand experiment in how to introduce a product to the market in a new way,» Maynard says.

SHANGHAI — China will soon begin its grand experiment to rein in climate change, using the nation's regionwide carbon markets as the building blocks for what could become the world's second - largest emissions trading market.

In this book, biologist and science writer Dugatkin and Trut recount this grand experiment.

«It's a grand experiment,» says molecular biologist Edward Cox, who runs a Hughes - funded summer research program for undergraduates at Princeton University.

In the pages that follow, we examine his novel theory and the grand experiment he has proposed to put it to the test.

Ian Lipkin of Columbia University orchestrated a grand experiment to learn whether XMRV could be found in patients with CFS.

A Grand Experiment Projects at Yellowstone Lake in Yellowstone National Park and at Idaho's Priest Lake and Lake Pend Oreille are focused on removing lake trout in the hope that native fish will repopulate.

«It's a grand experiment,» Muhlfeld says.

But in 1926 pioneering forestry scientists in the pay of the British colonial government started a grand experiment to reseed, and it's now the only place in the world where there is a very large tract of artificially seeded rainforest — one which has slowly been regenerating for nearly 90 years.

Founded 19 years ago, it's a grand experiment to test whether large herbivores — elk, moose, reindeer, horses, and bison — can, by grazing, bring back a grass - dominated ecosystem called the mammoth steppe.

Workers are constructing glass chambers around each plot, creating a system of open greenhouses as part of a grand experiment.

Knowing the goal, you can relax and enjoy the grand experiment of gardening!

The laboratory of your life is one grand experiment, and you're the one controlling the conditions.

I've joined the current 60 Day Challenge and it's a grand experiment plus I'm having good results.

Earlier in this piece, I mentioned that I'd be writing more about a show in my Best TV of 2017 piece next week, and you can be SURE to read more about David Lynch's grand experiment in that piece as well.