Sentence examples for ancient industry from inspiring English sources

Exhaust fumes from this ancient industry also have contributed to the corrosion of Venice's stonework.

Linen weaving is cited as an ancient industry there by the Greek geographer Strabo (born c. 63 bce).

But the way the drugs are made is borrowed a bit from a more ancient industry of Napa Valley.

Brewing is an ancient industry of the town the well water, impregnated with calcium sulfate derived from gypsum, being particularly suitable and the activity originated with the monks of Burton Abbey, a Benedictine abbey founded there in 1002.

"Ours is an ancient industry.

It's partly a response to technophobia in an ancient industry.

But Denmark's example suggests that the logic of clustering can be applied as well to ancient industries as to new ones.

An ancient silk industry has been expanded to include cotton, woolen, rayon, and nylon textiles.

Last December, Tony Blair adopted the most Old Labour of causes: saving what remains of Britain's uncool and ancient coal industry.

BEHIND a homely blue garage door in a genteel corner of Hammersmith sits Prudence, a complicated and expensive young lady, and the focal point of an ancient British industry that is undergoing a remarkable and timely revival.

Yet as everywhere else in the country, jobs are in short supply and much of the money that flows in here comes from those who sought work abroad.Even so, in Rosia Montana a Canadian company has created jobs by reviving an ancient mining industry.