Sentence examples for devoid of industry from inspiring English sources

Devoid of industry and wholly reliant on imports, the country is keenly feeling the impact of a slide in its currency.

As more and more people are priced out of the capital, these towns quiet rows of houses devoid of industry or entertainment are being bought up and used by people who just want a place to sleep.

As more and more people are priced out of the capital, these towns – quiet rows of houses seemingly devoid of industry or communal entertainment – are being bought up and used by people who just want a place to sleep.

The regions were chosen according to their environmental characteristics: a city polluted with organic chemical industry versus a rural region devoid of industrial sources of pollution.

Stanford University on Monday will announce plans to develop new continuing education programs for doctors that will be devoid of the drug industry influence that has often permeated such courses.

"Attachments have been a boring backwater of the computer industry, devoid of modernization, yet critical for our day-to-day lives," Miller said in a statement today".

In an industry largely devoid of any sense of the ridiculous, he was usually an exception.

These are not Wall Street virtues; we are dealing with an industry virtually devoid of ethics.

It's all so exhausting; the tyranny of synergy writ large in an industry increasingly devoid of ideas.

Look, I'm all for proposing substantive, sophisticated reference points in an industry usually devoid of any depth whatsoever, but you have to aesthetically back them up with clothing that somehow reflects the "theme", or whatever.

Despite its oil wealth, the east appears devoid of infrastructure apart from its oil industry.