Sentence examples for Swiss industry from inspiring English sources

Swiss industry manufactured more than 100 Häfeli DH-3 observation aircraft, but efforts to build a Swiss fighter (the Häfeli DH-4) were halted in 1918 because of the prototypes' poor performance.

"If everything in a watch really had to be Swiss-made, a large part of the Swiss industry would already have been destroyed".

In 2013, Saab moved to increase Swiss industry offsets above 100% of the deal value after the Swiss parliament's upper house voted down the deal's financing.

Chinese investors have recently acquired a handful of Swiss watch companies, like Eterna and Emile Chouriet, which are still members of the Swiss industry federation.

For Mr. Buttet, BNB's failure and Hublot's success point up a lesson that the Swiss industry needs to learn.

MARTIN EBNER has a reputation for pushing the giants of Swiss industry and finance to change their ways and pay more attention to shareholder value.

Since its origin in the 14th century, the manufacture of wool cloth had always been among the most important Swiss industries, but, after the demographic and economic crisis following the Black Death, textiles (excluding Sankt Gallen's linen) did not blossom again until the 17th century, when refugees reestablished silk manufacture and later introduced fine spinning and muslin weaving.

In this time, the Swiss Air Force also tested a few from the Swiss industry-developed Ground to Air Defence Systems but didn't introduce any of them into service (see: 35 mm anti aircraft tank B22L, RSD 58 and RSE Kriens (Missile)).

The Swiss banking industry supports this.

He also noted that the conduct was common practice in the Swiss banking industry.

So how on earth, a Martian might ask, can the Swiss watch industry survive?