forced development
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Opponents like the Washington Examiner’s Harry Jaffe contend that restricting building height is healthy because it “has forced development out of downtown and into the neighborhoods.”
From Slate • Apr. 18, 2012
The interests of labor are directly concerned to avoid premature and forced development in so important an industry.
From The Future of Brooklyn by Chapin, Alfred C.
It is not thought that such forced development would be necessary, and the Canal will be kept open for the specialized industries that can best use the co-ordination of the river, rail and maritime facilities.
From The Industrial Canal and Inner Harbor of New Orleans History, Description and Economic Aspects of Giant Facility Created to Encourage Industrial Expansion and Develop Commerce by Dabney, Thomas Ewing
But in the process of her unduly delayed and then unduly forced development it was plain that she had lost one thing which would have made her mother's heart ache if she had been alive.
From Notwithstanding by Cholmondeley, Mary
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