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1860 N. Amer. & U.S. Gaz. 4 Dec. We have elected the only advocate of the protective policy, or the development policy, as it may with greater fitness be called, who had any chance of success.

1886 Engin. & Mining Jrnl. 15 May 360/2 This plan is in substitution of the recent proposal to raise capital by means of a development company.

1898 Westm. Gaz. 21 Apr. 4/3 Advance moneys for development purposes.

1900 Daily News 11 June 2/1 Development operations have been carried out upon the Le Roi, No. 2 Property.

1937 S. J. Truscott Mine Econ. ii. 8 Sampling for the establishment of reserves is conducted primarily upon the exposures along the roads by which the deposit is explored and the property developed, this being Development Sampling.

1960 Times 20 Apr. 7/6 A development scheme..where elegant tradition is not ousted by ruthless..concrete architects.

1990 Economist 22 Sept. 33/3 Lloyds Bank estimates that foreign firms account for three-quarters of all projects receiving development assistance.

1997 Shetland Times 21 Nov. 9/1 The development committee agreed on Tuesday not to save money by scrapping the rural shop improvement scheme.

2015 Contra Costa Times (Calif.) (Nexis) 28 Jan. A development firm is pressing ahead with one of the city's largest housing projects in decades.