grandiose plan
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grandiose
adjective
uk/ˈɡræn.di.əʊs/us/ˈɡræn.di.oʊs/
larger and containing more detail than necessary, or intended to seem important ...
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plan
noun
uk/plæn/us/plæn/
a set of decisions about how to do something in ...
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(Definition ofgrandioseandplanfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Thisgrandioseplanfor rural transformation faltered with its first steps.
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I think it is accepted that there is no singlegrandioseplanto be imposed from on high.
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This is agrandioseplan.
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He reigned long enough to allow thegrandioseplanfor his pyramid to be realized in his lifetime.
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I regret that some of the more thrusting ideas and the more grandiose plans which were originally mooted have been tapered down.
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To produce grandiose plans which subsequently gather dust is to raise false hopes and generally discredit those concerned.
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I am simply saying that sometimes it is not the grandiose plans and schemes but the simple things in life that provide the answers.
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It should give up its grandiose plans and come down to earth.
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That is something which the more grandiose plans art apt to overlook.
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The plan was unashamedly political rather than economic and, like so many other grandiose plans, it subordinated economic reality to political faith.
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Some of the more grandiose plans put forward by those committees might be overhauled.
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However, that does not mean that we need grandiose plans produced by upper tier county councils which are desperately anxious to justify their own existence.
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Such grandiose plans tend to produce political aspirations, which the industrial plan does not.
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It is important, therefore, that the applicant countries should realise this position, and not embark on any grandiose plans for expansion of fibre production.
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These grandiose plans have been dropped, but certain provisions will be carried forward.
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In particular, will he be wary about grandiose plans to push up population to far higher levels for which the economic foundations and resources simply do not exist.
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Not only would we have a local income tax and other grandiose plans, but the cap that currently protects people from these technicalities would be removed.
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That is perhaps a better measure of the real commitment to an effective social dimension than the advocacy by some member states of grandiose plans which they cannot implement.
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It was intended to become a riverside resort of some size, and grandiose plans were formed.
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But early grandiose plans met with a number of setbacks.
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