Sentences with phrase «planning on a massive scale»

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«It was immediately apparent that there had been no advance planning on how to conduct electrical inspections on a massive scale» despite the fact that so many homes were in flood zones, Bellone said.

Our push for backward integration in providing our own raw materials on a massive scale has led to the planned investment of $ 4.6 billion over the next three years in sugar, rice and dairy production alone.

The whole response operation would have been on a much larger scale... the national contingency plan does not contain any provision for this, nor does it address the other problems that would arise during a massive, long - term response operation.»

Andy Stern, a retired neurologist based in Rochester, New York, who runs the Lost Bird Project and hatched the idea of the smartfin 4 years ago, says there are no plans to distribute the fins on a massive scale.

As Ken Ward, the former deputy director of Greenpeace USA and an environmental strategist has so acutely observed, we must «stop seeking and celebrating dinky achievements» because «nothing that we are doing, nor even seriously contemplating, comes anywhere near such a massive transformation [as is necessary], yet every actor on the political stage... downplays the terrible realities and trumpets small - scale solutions wrapped in upbeat rhetoric... We are racing toward the end of the world and have no plan of escape, but it is considered impolite to acknowledge that fact in public.»

Social and economic disruption on a massive scale is fundamental to the plan — economic collapse they argue is a transitional opportunity.

We really do need to get moving on a massive scale, and with national and global energy plans that add up.