Sentences with phrase «of abandoning projects in»

In 2016, during a visit to some project sites in Kaduna, a committee of the House of Representatives put N5tn as the rough estimate of the abandoned projects in the country.

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The most efficient small businesses have abandoned pen and paper in favor of software that plans schedules and tracks projects.

For a mine project like Suncor's Fort Hills, with about 25 per cent of construction already completed, the forward - looking decision would imply a return on the balance of capital invested of 12.5 per cent — now, the project returns overall might be lower than that, but when you're considering a decision to abandon a partially built mine, you're not likely to get much of a return on they money you've already invested in it if you don't continue building.

Elizabeth May: Mr. Speaker, the second petition is from residents of Thunder Bay, Sudbury, and Winnipeg, calling on the Government of Canada to abandon its promotional stance toward the northern gateway project and ensure it has a full and neutral review, bearing in mind that so far the proponent has not dealt with the subject...

Southern Company has been making a lot of the right moves in my opinion from abandoning the Clean Coal Project to looking to position themselves as a clean energy company.

In the most recent assessment, the City has stated that they have redefined project boundaries to minimize impacts on the abandoned Mill Creek channel, but they haven't addressed the more important point — what about the impact of the project on potential efforts to re-animate the channel in the futurIn the most recent assessment, the City has stated that they have redefined project boundaries to minimize impacts on the abandoned Mill Creek channel, but they haven't addressed the more important point — what about the impact of the project on potential efforts to re-animate the channel in the futurin the future?

In response to this past weekend's announcement by Kinder Morgan that it is suspending non-essential spending on the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion until May 31, and the possibility the project could be abandoned after that date, Premier Brian Pallister is calling on the government of British Columbia to abandon its opposition to the project and for the Government of Canada to ensure the project proceeds to completion.

The project of natural theology, seeking what can be known of God by the light of reason alone, was abandoned and left for dead by many scholars in mid-century, assumed to be a victim of either positivism or epistemic relativism.

A long time ago I abandoned the whole project of seeking God's will in this situation or that.

The willingness of President Bush (in his better moments) to spend money to shore up civil society — making it perhaps less necessary to spend money down the road, as the promise of the «ownership society» was fulfilled — was taken as an opportunity by those not invested in that «limited» project (I have in mind here both the conventional Republicans in the Bush White House and the pork - barrelling Republicans in the House and Senate) to open the federal purse with relative abandon.

As The Washington Post explains, the discovery of the new location first began 15 years ago when a team at the Tower of David Museum began an expansion project: «But the story took a strange turn when archaeologists started peeling away layers under the floor in an old abandoned building adjacent to the museum in Jerusalem's Old City.»

The plot begins like an epic — in the middle of things — plunges backward like Proust to recapture some fragment of the past, careens forward, and suddenly stops as though the whole project had been abandoned.

Even though I did not receive teaching from a Church setting but rather from a marketplace ministry setting where they taught us «Externally Focused Church, Organic Church, which was really a good thing (new wine skin initiatives) but when we implemented and embraced it, we found that its not quite effective and in the end the leaders abandoned the project and most of us were in the dark on what is the next good program or system to follow.

Most of the season had gone by before the project was abandoned, and to make matters worse Kimi Raikkonen was challenging for the championship in an updated version of the 2002 car.

The reality is that we are, in general, incredibly happy to have three freezers of our own grown and raised food going out there in Papa's workshop, right next to the chop saw and the piles of Harper's abandoned and sometimes in - progress woodworking projects (it's hard to tell which is which, and so it's best to ask him first before moving anything.

Indeed, if South - South parliamentarians share the mentality of Rivers Governor, Nyesom Wike, who because of political differences with his predecessor would abandon the state's monorail project, then they would have put the South - South in further developmental bind.

Mr Mahama's comments come just a few days after his arch-rival, Nana Akufo - Addo, flag bearer of the main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) told party supporters in the Volta Region during his campaign tour that he will not abandon projects started by the Mahama administration should he (Akufo - Addo) win the forthcoming polls.

He reminded them of the on - going projects that were abandoned by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) when the NDC lost political power in 2000.

Recalling such projects abandoned by previous governments, Vice President Bawumia called for continuity in the execution of government projects, saying Ghanaians were the ultimate losers of such decisions.

But one of the architects of New Labour, who chronicled the early days of the project in his book The Unfinished Revolution, had another key message: never abandon the mantle of reform.

In December, Nassau OTB selected the vacant Fortunoff building in Westbury to house the VLTs, but abandoned the project in the face of strong opposition from local, county and state officialIn December, Nassau OTB selected the vacant Fortunoff building in Westbury to house the VLTs, but abandoned the project in the face of strong opposition from local, county and state officialin Westbury to house the VLTs, but abandoned the project in the face of strong opposition from local, county and state officialin the face of strong opposition from local, county and state officials.

The project, on Walnut Avenue between Fifth and Seventh streets, involved new construction for 32 units in seven buildings where vacant structures once stood, and the re-purposing of an historic, long - abandoned educational building, for nine additional units.

This is an important component of the image he likes to project, of course, so it was more than a little regrettable when it emerged he had «abandoned» his eight - year - old daughter in a country pub.

The Doha round of trade negotiations is another area of increasing controversy, with the latest failure to reach agreement in December 2011 leading to much speculation that the project will have to be abandoned altogether.

The few communities in the council that could be reached by road are Amassoma, Igebiri and, of late, Ayama, courtesy of the Governor Seriake Dickson - led administration, which resuscitated the long abandoned Central senatorial district project.

«We are not in any way in doubt of the support as pledged at the concluded meeting with the Governor that this is not going to be an abandoned project because we are going to have all the support needed and in that wise, our intention is to make Lagos a kind of medical tourism centre where people in sub-Saharan Africa will be coming to Nigeria to receive healthcare instead of going to places like India,» Ilori said.

Promises the governor made in the wake of the Buffalo Billion corruption scandal have been abandoned as Phase II of the project moves forward.

The measure was largely aimed at developers, but in coming to an agreement with Quinn, the RWDSU had to abandon its goal of having retail businesses renting space in such projects also meet the compensation minimum.

Creating the problem were several factors: including a formal environmental review process that needed completion after being abandoned by then - governor Eliot Spitzer seven years ago, and a series of carefully wrought but ultimately obtuse statements from the state's Department of Environmental Conservation, in charge of the projects, as well as its own expansion plan's, review.

This Restore NY project is a great example of remediating and revitalizing an abandoned industrial site and bringing it back to life as a value - added economic property in our community,» Carla DeShaw, mayor of the Village of Canastota, said in a news release that the office of Gov. Andrew Cuomo issued Jan. 22.

The subsidies are for the Lighthouse Point project, which includes a hotel, 100 housing units, «an urban beach» and shops arranged in a faux streetscape to create «a charming old - world merchant village» on an abandoned Coast Guard parcel just south of the St. George Ferry terminal, according to its developers.

He said, «There were over N4bn worth of projects abandoned in my constituency and this administration has continued to execute most of these projects.

The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo is keeping his promise of not abandoning projects initiated by his predecessor to rot, and has consequently inaugurated the Sekondi Fishing Harbour today, Monday, 23rd April, 2018, at a ceremony in Sekondi, in the Western Region.

The region's top federal environmental official says the project in Ludlow Massachusetts serves as example for reusing the scores of other abandoned industrial sites that dot the landscape.

The refurbishment of the Harbour, was began by the Mahama administration in July 2016, and now completed by the Akufo - Addo government, the President said, «is evidence of the pledge I made in the run - up to the 2016 general elections that I will not abandon any project merely because it was started by a previous government.»

Gwiwa, who also spoke to reporters said the decision of the current APC - led government to continue with some abandoned projects in his constituency led to his defection.

Citi News has in the last few days exposed a number of health projects undertaken by successive governments which cost the taxpayer several millions of dollars but have been abandoned.

With some 143 million orphaned or abandoned children worldwide — and tens of thousands more projected to be orphaned by AIDS and other diseases in the next year — a fresh look at the orphanage issue might be coming in the nick of time for many kids, especially where foster or adoptive families are in short supply.

Forced to abandon the project, Kaatz found her way to the then - new school of public health at the University of Wisconsin (UW), Madison, and to Molly Carnes, who, in addition to working as a geriatrician, holds faculty appointments in three UW Madison departments and heads UW's Center for Women's Health Research.

As the project grew over the years, he moved it into a corner of the astronomy department, then to the University of Arizona's optical shop, then into an abandoned synagogue, and finally, in 1985, into the new mirror lab he had convinced the department to build.

Mission control would be from an abandoned McDonald's at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, says Keith Cowing, a co-director of the project and the editor of the website NASA Watch.

Each of us has abandoned a project at some point, whether as simple as a lapsed exercise plan or as complicated as the Sagrada Familia Basilica in Barcelona, which has technically been under construction since 1882.

This passion project aims to show respect for the city of Detroit by reusing the abandoned house in a creative way, while also giving florists an innovative and unique opportunity to showcase their work.

That his portrayal even made it to the small screen is no mean feat, with director Mark Rydell (Intersection) only coming on board after Michael Mann (Public Enemies), Des McAnuff (The Adventures of Rocky And Bullwinkle), Dennis Hopper (Dean's friend and co-star in Giant and Rebel Without A Cause) and Milčo Mančevski (Before The Rain) abandoned the project.

The characters depicted here by a motley assortment of actors — Matt Dillon, Jean Reno, Laurence Fishburne, Skeet Ulrich, and Fred Ward are all on board the talent - heavy project — are blue - collar in a credible, likable way, and the film's action is limited mainly to an abandoned industrial site somewhere in greater L.A..

Along the way, we touch on the abandoned film project that Lee was working on with screenwriter Michael Arndt, how The Book Of Life affected this production, the evolution of the idea from the initial spark to the finished film, how Adrian Molina got involved in the project, how Lee Unkrich went from editor to director and how he edits his own films, how Darla got a credit as «Digital Angel» on the original Toy Story, hiding easter eggs in an international setting, and working with Michael GiacchinOf Life affected this production, the evolution of the idea from the initial spark to the finished film, how Adrian Molina got involved in the project, how Lee Unkrich went from editor to director and how he edits his own films, how Darla got a credit as «Digital Angel» on the original Toy Story, hiding easter eggs in an international setting, and working with Michael Giacchinof the idea from the initial spark to the finished film, how Adrian Molina got involved in the project, how Lee Unkrich went from editor to director and how he edits his own films, how Darla got a credit as «Digital Angel» on the original Toy Story, hiding easter eggs in an international setting, and working with Michael Giacchino.

MAD ABOUT MOVIES: Nowhere is the collision of art and commerce more pronounced than at the Cannes Film Festival, and HBO's tantalizing quasi-mock-documentary Seduced and Abandoned (9 / 8c) gives us a ringside seat, courtesy of Alec Baldwin — a Cannes newbie, incredibly — and director pal James Toback, who celebrate the history and glamorous hysteria of this venerated event while purporting to pitch a passion project to investors: an unlikely political sex drama they call «Last Tango in Tikrit.»

The child actors are terrific little Duracell batteries of rambunctious energy, and as the trio cuts an unsupervised path of mischief across the property — spitting on cars, roughhousing in abandoned buildings, chattering nonstop — The Florida Project conjures a sense of carefree everyday adventure that lesser films about childhood only wish they could summon.

This originally announced production was eventually abandoned, and at various points throughout a circuitous development process, the project was assigned to several directors including Phillip Noyce, Chris Columbus, Chuck Russell, Roland Emmerich, and Peter Jackson, the latter of whom had suggested an APES film to Fox in 1992.

It's based on a series of graphic novels and director Edgar Wright, whose love of popular culture bounces through his films and TV projects with creative abandon, celebrates the graphic qualities of the comic book origins in a playfully cinematic manner.