Nimbies

No development here, these influential nimbies cried. ❋ Newmania (2007)

The BBC was promoting a peculiarly specious argument culled from the Stansted nimbies: airport expansion should be checked because it only encourages people to travel, to the disadvantage of British trade. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Cities such as London, forever dithering over a third runway at Heathrow, and Los Angeles, where nimbies keep blocking the expansion of LAX, and New York, with sclerotic links from the city to its airports, are in trouble. ❋ Rowan Moore (2011)

I can discount these nimbies because it's not like I am unaffected by development. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The nimbies are working their black magic everywhere, it seems. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Then, there's Middleport and Lockport where you have nimbies who complain about outdoor concerts to mayors Maedl and Tucker. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Those incidents are just the tip of the iceberg; nimbies are everywhere. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Do nimbies not realize that more goods could be manufactured in America if people like them didn't make it nearly impossible to do so? ❋ Unknown (2010)

But, it's always the small band of naysayers - the nimbies - who ruin it for everyone, businesses and residents alike, by delaying and even preventing development. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It's ironic: I accept that manure with open arms, but the bull the nimbies spread really turns my stomach. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Despite their totally obvious reasons for protest (they don't want to look at or experience the business or they see it as a competitor to theirs), the nimbies really stretch the law and create legal hurdles so consuming of time, effort and money that many prospective companies just give up. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Pressure also comes from China's growing middle class which increasingly complains about government decisions, just like the middle-class nimbies in the rest of the world. ❋ Team Register (2010)

You also have the Gasport nimbies who aren't very welcoming to Niagara Metals. ❋ Unknown (2010)