Sentences with phrase «many ambitious schemes»

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

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.

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.

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.

«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.

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.

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.

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

This impressive sight is just the second part of an ambitious scheme to...

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.

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The most ambitious element of Brooks's scheme was designing Baxter to be trained the way humans learn things — by having someone show them how to do it — instead of having to be programmed by experts.

Despite meeting with President Xi Jinping in Beijing this week, U.K. prime minister Theresa May will not give written support for China's ambitious Belt and Road project, due to concerns that contracts under the scheme will unfairly favour Chinese companies.

The cozy monstrosity is also, of course, the scheme of their marriage as a place of refuge from the impersonal, warlike society in which they carry on their ambitious professional lives, earning the salaries that buy conspicuous affluence.

Hip - hop historians call this period the Golden Age (Bradley and DuBois date it from 1985 to 1992), and it produced the kinds of lyrical shifts that are easy to spot in print: extended similes and ambitious use of symbolism; an increased attention to character and ideology; unpredictable internal rhyme schemes; enjambment and uneven line lengths.

Certainly Buchler's ambitious and original categorial scheme deserves attention, much more attention than it has received.

It is understood the government will consider a revised offer, but still favours a container deposit scheme as the best way to achieve its ambitious litter - reduction targets.

Ambitious specialists began in an extremely offensive 4 -2-4 scheme, as the strikers Alessandro Del Piero Alessandro Matra and actively assists in the wings Simone Pepe and new addition Emanuele Giaccherini.

The current crisis is worsening the economic situation and seriously endangers the ambitious — and often popular - social programmes launched by the president in the past ten years such as the exemption of health - care user fees from pregnant mothers and children below five, free schools, a reform of primary school, and a new health insurance scheme.

In this sense, the dominant targeting scheme clearly expands the universe of targets and thus enables much more ambitious persuasion and GOTV programs.

The government heralds the scheme as the most ambitious programme ever for improving energy efficiency, while simultaneously cutting all taxpayer funding for it.

Mr Huhne said it may be necessary to make changes if the EU's emissions trading scheme was «not ambitious enough».

QUEENS — Power - hungry state Sen. Malcolm Smith schemed with a Queens councilman and GOP bosses to build a «corridor of corruption» in an ambitious attempt to line their pockets with cash and get him elected the mayor of New York City, federal authorities said Tuesday.

Despite a multibillion - dollar bid - rigging scheme implicating some of his closest associates, Gov. Andrew Cuomo tried to shift the focus to an ambitious infrastructure program — a $ 1.6 billion plan to transform the historic Farley Post Office into a world - class transportation hub that would entail revamping Penn Station, which he called the «train version» of LaGuardia Airport.

In a blog post, the NRCC called Cuomo's effort to take back the House «an ambitious goal after his former campaign manager / best friend was caught using Sopranos code words like «boxes of ziti» for «money» while orchestrating pay - to - play schemes in Albany.»

John Wayne Smith has ambitious plans for the office of governor of Florida: cutting taxes to the bone, eliminating dozens of agencies and offices, rescinding laws that allow the use of eminent domain to take property for private gain, and getting rid of occupational licensing schemes that prevent so many people from earning a living.

Molinaro, the Dutchess County Executive who on April 2 formally launched his big for governor, appeared in Buffalo two days later and, along with local Republican elected officials and party leadership, called Governor Cuomo's ambitious and expensive investment plan for Western New York as a corrupt pay - to - play scheme.

«As ambitious as our task was, we have only just scraped the surface in characterizing leadership across mammalian societies and some of the most exciting aspects of the project are still yet to come as biologists and anthropologists implement our novel scheme for additional taxa and societies,» Smith said.

A new book's ambitious plan to spot and stop global epidemics is easier said than done unless governments show willing and fund a real scheme to do just that

An ambitious but naive young man rapidly moves up the corporate ladder from the mailroom to the executive suite, unaware that he is part of the board of directors» nefarious scheme.

His mother (Angelina Jolie) is a two - dimensional caricature of the scheming, ambitious woman whose lust for power is channeled through her son.

Mistress America Director: Noah Baumbach Running time: 86 minutes Certificate: R A lonely college freshmen befriends her ambitious future stepsister, played by Greta Gerwig, and is pulled into a leftfield scheme.

After initial success Lynn and friends get more and more ambitious, and greedy, and try to pull off bigger and bigger cheating schemes.

No, it wasn't until she fell into a honeypot scheme involving her asset, Ahmed Nazari (Darwin Shaw), and his millions of embezzled dollars, that she became desperate enough to ally with the ambitious SVR Ivan (Mark Ivanir), who seemed to understand her deeper ambitions, and knew how to temper them with equal parts fear and opportunity.

Logline: A ruthlessly ambitious Scottish lord seizes the throne with the help of his scheming wife and three witches.

Victor abducts the future Igor from his sideshow captors, in a scene that brings to mind a Guy Ritchie «Sherlock Holmes» movie, only not as good (yes, you read that right, «only not as good»), and installs him in his lab, the better to assist him in his ambitious, perhaps mad, schemes.

Apparently based on a true story, Pain & Gain tells the story of three moronic but ambitious body builders in Florida who jump head first into a kidnapping and extortion scheme that goes terribly wrong.

Beating Norway's world record tunnel by three miles, the scheme has been described by transport minister John Hayes as «the most ambitious project since the construction of the first motorways 50 years ago.»

Over # 6 billion has been allocated by the current government in the scheme to date, which swiftly replaced the ambitious and sometimes lavish Building Schools for the Future programme, introduced during Tony Blair's stint as Prime Minister.

But no if this turns out to be its own unrealistically ambitious federal regulatory scheme, no if it amounts to a bunch of plan writing and plan reviewing that yields no real change on the ground, and no if it further complicates what is already a hugely challenging transition in most states to higher academic standards and new forms of assessment.

Amid all the controversy surrounding Cadillac's ambitious future plans and new naming scheme stands the 2015 Cadillac Escalade.

While two teenage girls — one a seamstress, the other a nursemaid and former slave — navigate the various social structures of the palace, other characters — including the King and Queen, their advisers and an ambitious, scheming lord — concoct alliances, trade favors and hide their machinations (and their secrets) under the guise of pomp and ceremony.

Notice how the first one has tried to incorporate too many elements and it looks a cluttered mess (not to mention the highly ambitious colour scheme.)

Our ambitious plans for the game include adding a multiplayer option with unique skins for different players, an all new vector visual interface and experience, new weapons, control schemes, game modes and much much more.

Key works of international contemporary art from six regional museums — acquired through an ambitious Art Fund collecting scheme — are to tour the UK.

This was down to the City Sculpture Project, a hugely ambitious public sculpture scheme that supported the commissioning of large - scale works.