Sentence examples for engine of the city from inspiring English sources

Tourism is an economic engine of the city.

The financial industry is the main engine of the city, largely because its employees are so highly paid.

Their investment in the conservancy also supports the economic engine of the city, one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world, and New Yorkers' quality of life.

Behind the Statehouse are the towers of the financial district, which is the engine of the city's newfound prosperity.

— Jeff Gordinier Smithsonian: A panegyric to the public market as the building block of civilized urban life, with a gold star for the West Side Market in Cleveland, an architectural gem that has become a key engine of the city's revitalization.

Wall Street has traditionally been the main engine of the city's economy, but it has lagged behind other industries in rebounding from the financial crisis that began about five years ago.

The hub of Baltimore's insurance and financial industries stands cheek by jowl with the engines of the city's other top commercial endeavor: tourism.

The effects of the terrorist attacks, combined with sharp downturns in the financial services, telecommunications and media industries -- all significant engines of the city's economy -- have made New York one of the hardest places in the country to find a job right now.

"By expanding and futurizing our convention center, we can capture our fair share of that market, and it will serve as a better economic engine for the city of Los Angeles," he said during an economic forum in downtown Los Angeles.

It also acted as an economic engine for the city of New York; a 1997 study by Audience Research and Analysis said "Cats" had contributed more than $3.12 billion to the city's economy and more than $195 million in state and local taxes.

In 2014, Ridgecrest's then-mayor Dan Clark proposed an entire festival centered around the petroglyphs, describing it as a potential "economic engine" for the city of Ridgecrest.