Sentence examples for colonial industries from inspiring English sources

In an address to the Engineering Section of the Royal Society of New South Wales in 1900, Selfe recalled his work for Russell's: While there [I] prepared plans for numbers of flour mills, and for the first ice-making machines, designing machinery for the multifarious requirements of colonial industries, many of which (such as sheep-washing and boiling down) no longer exist on the old lines.

That best seller spawned a cottage industry — make that a Dutch Colonial industry — that has so far yielded dozens of books and documentaries, hundreds of Web pages and a 1979 hit movie that, in turn, inspired no fewer than 12 remakes, prequels and sequels, two of which are scheduled for release in 2014.

Many people were affected by this disaster, and the Krenak people, who sit on the edges of society, arguably feel the effects of colonial industry the worst.

He has shown us harsh, intractable truths, which have not agreed with the ideologies of the liberal-relativists and the politically correct police force of the post-colonial industry.

Because landlocked Switzerland had no shipping enterprises or colonial possessions, industry was the natural target for economic development.

An archaeological team monitoring a road-building project has unearthed a well-preserved pottery kiln built in the 1770's, a rare find from one of Trenton's biggest Colonial-era industries.

Additionally, some of these combine both spatial and temporal meaning in the one instance, such as 'to the mid-nineteenth century gold rushes' or 'from Australia's colonial fishing industry'.

To take just one industry, colonial America was one of the world's largest producers of pig iron, but milling and steelmaking were reserved for British firms.

Boston is the perfect mix of industry, colonial architecture, and affable working class folks who'll gladly invite you over to share a pitcher (or three) of Sam Adams.

I disagree: around the world, developing countries are throwing off colonial overlords and nationalizing industries to return some of the profits to the citizens.

Just a few months later, in response to a lockout/strike in the tobacco industry, the colonial head Manuel Salamanca y Negrete closed the manufacturer's union, the Alianza Obrera and the Círculo de Trabajadores, although the four schools maintained by the Círculo were allowed to remain open, and the Círculo as a whole was allowed to reopen the following year by the new administration.