Sentence examples for abandoned industry from inspiring English sources

One day in 1968, state landscape architects stood on the banks of the Harlem River, then blighted by abandoned industry, and imagined River Park Towers.

Peter Stern Oak Park, Ill., Sept. 10, 2010 To the Editor: David Brooks writes that our brightest minds have abandoned industry and technology in favor of more lucrative jobs in finance and the service economy.

Abandoned industry formed its backdrop – everything is overgrown and crumbling – and although it's set in the East End, it was just as likely to be filmed in equally grotty locations in west London, close to the BBC.

In fact, it is a central part of town within the historic residential area on one side and an abandoned industry facility on the other.

In the late 1800s, US unions abandoned industry wide organizing for crafts-based organizing.

Photographer Tom Teutenberg captures the remnants of abandoned industry: freezing works, meat processing plants, and whaling relics.

The hipster kingdom as it is known today is a small yet dedicated artist community among streets of empty warehouses that serve as relics of abandoned industries.

America's brightest minds have been abandoning industry and technical enterprise in favor of more prestigious but less productive fields like law, finance, consulting and nonprofit activism.

While the rest of the industry banded together to develop common technologies for digital television in the late 1990's, for example, Cablevision abandoned the industry's research consortium and made a side deal with Sony.

The waning of the slave trade the Portuguese rulers and merchants reluctantly abandoned the industry in 1876 coupled with increasing drought slowly sapped the islands' prosperity.

They only need to visit the towns that have been abandoned by industry, walk the high streets where local businesses have been replaced by bookies and pawn shops, or wave off their children who are moving elsewhere to find work.