• Much, then, is riding on the success of a plane that Boeing dismisses as a white elephant.

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  • They point out the "ghost town" of Kilamba in Angola, a grandiose project often labeled as a white elephant.

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  • However Fife Council has insisted it would not become a white elephant.

    BBC: A temporary bus station has been operating on James Street

  • To counter the 787, Airbus is offering a white elephant called the A350, which has been widely derided as out of step with the changing times.

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  • Add in the likelihood that the rate cap leads to escalating subsidies, and no wonder that some Brazilians wonder whether an all-too familiar species has re-emerged in the Amazon: a white elephant.

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  • Hence, in turn, our own notion that a white elephant is a valuable possession which cannot be disposed of, even though the expense of maintaining it is out of all proportion to its usefulness or worth.

    BBC: No white elephants in this herd

  • But there are many here who now fear the high-speed rail network may turn out to be a white elephant, too expensive, saddled with massive debts that it will never pay off - a wealth destroyer not a wealth generator.

    BBC: China to the UK's aid?

  • There will be endless promises to ensure that there is a positive legacy of London 2012, that we are more sporting as a nation, more inclusive and that the Olympic Park revives east London and does not become a white elephant.

    BBC: Boris and the Olympic legacy made flesh

  • It is a great white elephant, held back by the feeble condition of Cuba's economy.

    ECONOMIST: Bad air from Cuba

  • Indonesians have come to cherish their local freedoms, with good cause even if it means a white-elephant stadium or three.

    ECONOMIST: Indonesia

  • Have a family white elephant gift exchange this year.

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  • Dick Durbin assure us, not because they want to use federal money to indemnify their home state for a white-elephant prison Illinois taxpayers should never have built, but because Guantanamo Bay simply must be closed.

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  • The escalator, originally built to ease traffic on the narrow street, was initially criticized by the city's director of audit as a costly "white elephant" because it overshot its budget by 153% and failed to reduce traffic.

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  • In some ways, then, the expression "white elephant" carries with it in Thailand a very different meaning from that which we associate with it in the West.

    BBC: No white elephants in this herd

  • That master of hype once wooed more people to pay to see an elephant he'd painted white than a rival circus master attracted with a real snowy one.

    FORBES: Smoke and mirrors

  • The recipient of this vengeful act of royal generosity was thus confronted with the high costs of looking after the white elephant, and as often as not went broke as a result.

    BBC: No white elephants in this herd

  • The plan initially is to import elephant, white rhino, warthog, giraffe, zebra, wildebeest and a range of antelope.

    ECONOMIST: Wildlife conservation

  • Big and dark and looking slightly weary, his white tusks flashing in the sun, the elephant walked towards our table with a steady gait, moving with a dogged, fatigued determination.

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  • Enough of a common mind-set remains that when Rudolph Giuliani (another pro-choice Catholic politician) last year denounced a painting of the Virgin incorporating elephant dung, his approval rating jumped from 60% to 80% among white Catholics.

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