Sentences with phrase «grand plan»

We'd make grand plans of having a meal out at least once a month; we'd still take regular trips to the cinema and see the occasional show at the theatre.

I often set out on a project with grand plans and lovely pictures in my head only to be disappointed by the result.

Ah, the new year: a time for us all to make grand plans.

This is the bulk of the work and it is about engaging with the fine detail rather than developing grand plans.

This spirit of collaboration is now seeing grand plans for a vast wind power installation take shape.

These seven articles will inspire grand plans but at the same time provide the direction and tools to begin the journey in small, manageable steps.

After that we put our brain away to be totally present with our child (when we have the optimal grand plan, we don't need our brain).

I also had grand plans of doing a little fashion show and showing you what I bought but wasn't keeping and getting your thoughts but life just got in the way.

A whole industry built on hydrogen is on the verge of emerging, starting with hydrogen - fueled cars, and grand plans for hydrogen - powered houses, offices and even ships.

Often the actual educators seem to be an afterthought in grander plans to change the structure or technology of schooling.

If a visitor is talking about grand plans like tearing out walls, gutting the kitchen and bathroom, or even critiquing the furniture and drapes, they are likely a lookie - loo, it says.

B.C. is third - worst in private sector job creation since the premier announced grand plans to create jobs with no actions to back them up.

The end of summer... I always have such grand plans for big end of summer bashes, picnics and fun with all our friends before school...

This service is the first manifestation of grander plans behind the scenes to assemble «knowledge graphs»: vast stores of data on hundreds of millions of people, places and other entities, as well as contextual information that describes how the entities are linked.

While services like weather and sports scores are useful Echo features, Amazon's grand plans include the built - in ability to control any smart home device, including third - party apps with simple voice commands.

Council Speaker Christine Quinn, who has been at times both an avid fan and a worst enemy to Mayor Bloomberg, gave a speech before a crowded meeting room of educators last week in which she unveiled grand plans for the school system which could cost upwards of $ 330 million.

One week ago exactly, it was promoted everything was working according to Wengers grand plan, and those of us, who have been critical of Wenger in the past, were supposedly gone hiding and too afraid to admit, everything was perfect.

This apart, some of the bigwigs of the industry like Dell or Acer all have revealed grand plans of coming up with tablets running the Android Froyo.

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.

Los Angeles entrepreneur Elon Musk has so many grand plans — developing self - driving cars and the hyperloop, revolutionizing solar power and how the world gets electricity, colonizing Mars, to name a few — that he's labeled crazy and genius in a single...

Ultimately it feels like there were much grander plans in place for the entire campaign and that so much more time should have been given over to exploring these potentially great characters, their abandonment of their entire life in favor of the Rebellion and their relationship with Hask.

It also has grander plans beyond the smartphone with a smart home operating system called AmbientOS and an Amazon Echo - like hub to control everything.

Although DoorDash currently delivers only cooked food, Xu suggests grander plans.

It has been Harperâ $ ™ s grand plan since day one, starve government of resources and hence its power.

In fact, indications from federal officials suggest they are not optimistic that enough provinces will sign on to salvage Flaherty's original grand plan.

MILESTONES By Tiziana Barghini A grand plan to transform a vast area round the Suez Canal — one of the world's longest and oldest waterways, linking the Mediterranean and Red Seas — into a trading and industrial center could finally see the light of...

It would seem, Follow of Christ, that the creator has a lot more to answer for than simply «having faith» in his so - called grand plan when his ultimate creation has already been made.

There were some extremely grand plans to test taquitos and churros, but my oil splatter PTSD kicked in, and I made tacos instead.

Sometimes i think it's a whole grand plan to let some of our players go so they can wreck havoc on our rivals.

After initial grand plans for a country inn, restaurant, cultural center and outdoor entertainment venue were denied by village officials last year, developer Bill Feldgreber returned with revised plans for a quaint country inn on 4.6 acres, with the remaining 9.4 acres used for single - family residential properties.

Grand plans anyone?

As a legislative leader, the speaker's position entails balancing grand plans with the local needs of 50 other Council members, for whom the parochial concerns of their residents on matters such as tree planting and garbage pickup can take precedence over sweeping changes to the fabric of government.

If the administration's grand plans prove successful, that may prove just a footnote in the ledger of O'Neill's accomplishments.

Richard Jenkins and Bradley Whitford make a great comedy double act as a pair of senior technicians working for a company that simulates horror movie scenarios as part of a sinister grand plan.

Four old friends get together for a weekend of debauchery in Vegas, each with their own grand plans.

HP already has drawn up grand plans with its 9.7 inch TouchPad device though that isn't the only tablet that the company has lined up for a future release.

They emerged from piecemeal reform of a longstanding institution, which proceeded slowly from modest community initiatives, not all at once in accordance with grand plans devised by experts.

Like a lot of teachers, she gets frustrated by the «experts» and the politicians who are constantly proposing «No Child Left Behind» and «Race to the Top» schemes, along with other grand plans that invariably add up to more standardized testing and less focus on actual education.

So, given the inherent issues in a test - based system without a clear sense of what's being measured, if we go ahead and provide the benefit of the doubt and assume that there is some informed grand plan behind our current system of education, let's talk about mixed messages.

Apple has already beaten the competition once when it had launched the iPad while the most the competition could do was to make public grand plans of grand tablets of the future.

Even after he was ousted as the premier naturalist of his age and the most celebrated man of science in America - even as he suffered, at age sixty - two, a cerebral hemorrhage that first paralyzed him, then required him to take to his bed for most of a year, forbidden by his doctors to smoke his beloved cigars or even to think, either of which they predicted might kill him - Harvard professor Louis Agassiz never stopped spinning grand plans or forging ahead with them.

The Swedish mind behind Adang Adang obviously has some pretty grand plans but they hadn't quite come to fruition when we visited.

The first XCOM was heavily inspired by the Gollop brothers» UFO games of the early 1990s, but its slick blend of tactical turn - based combat and over-arching grand planning made it a crossover hit.

Launching the region's new architecture centre, RIBA North, this exhibition shines a fascinating spotlight on the history of Liverpool's unbuilt grand plans, from rival designs for the two cathedrals to the drunken cultural cloud of the Fourth Grace by Will Alsop, planned for the very site where the RIBA's gallery now stands.

It's all part of nature grand plan, our encroachment into nature, and cat's encroachment in the food chain.