Sentence examples for economic cornerstone from inspiring English sources

But now the economic troubles are evident here in Xi'an, an economic cornerstone of northwestern China that serves as one of the country's largest transportation and distribution hubs and a manufacturing center for everything from bulldozers to aircraft components.

Late last month, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced an initial investment of $113 million in energy, infrastructure and digital commerce as the economic cornerstone of an "Indo-Pacific" strategy, which was interpreted by Washington's foreign policy community as a lackluster attempt by Trump's team to offer an alternative vision.

Sandler, whose family battled apartheid in South Africa as social workers, township doctors and (more dangerously) as financiers for the Spear of the Nation (the armed wing of the African National Congress), looks at logistics as an economic cornerstone for building more stable and democratic societies in sub-Saharan Africa.

It is there that tourism is the economic cornerstone and thus, chemical sunscreen residues are suspected of being a major causative factor.

Signs of improvement in the housing market and the construction industry also lifted sentiment that these economic cornerstones might be firming.

The gas industry "will prove to be one of the main economic cornerstones for a future independent state of Palestine," predicted Said Khoury, president of the Consolidated Contractors Company of Athens, the minority partner in the project.

Summaries of development, manufacturing, regulatory practice, and economic cornerstones will be given so that senior readers understand the current trends and decide where to dive deeper into details in other chapters.

It's a small country hit hard by a few major changes inside a short period of time: iPads ate the markets of two economic cornerstones, Nokia and the paper industry; the Russian export business declined rapidly; and the population, like many in Western European nations, is aging at an alarming rate.

Mr Blair praised Gordon Brown for making economic stability the "cornerstone of this government".

Early in the Kentucky race, Mr Chandler made criticism of Mr Bush's economic policies a cornerstone of his campaign.

President Vladimir Putin, who took office in the wake of his nation's 1998 financial crisis, has made economic stability a cornerstone of his nearly 15 years as leader.