Sentence examples for forms of economic activity from inspiring English sources
The "Dutch disease" was a term coined by The Economist in 1977 to describe how the exploitation of natural resources can cause a decline in other forms of economic activity, particularly manufacturing.
Since the daily turnover on foreign exchange markets is so out of proportion compared with all other forms of economic activity, even the tiniest currency transactions tax would raise huge sums of money.
The theory is that setting a limit on pollution and allowing the market to decide how to stay within that limit is ideally suited to reducing carbon emissions, which come from almost all forms of economic activity and mix into the atmosphere with global effect.
The Taliban finds ways of "taxing" almost all forms of economic activity in areas where its fighters are present, most famously the lucrative opium crops of Helmand, but also the timber trade in the eastern forests and marble cutting in the south.
In the United States, Arthur F. Burns and Wesley C. Mitchell based such studies on the assumption that at any specific time there are as many cycles as there are forms of economic activity or variables to be studied, and they tried to measure these in relation to a "reference cycle," which they artificially constructed as a standard of comparison.
Compared with other forms of economic activity, they represent unproductive uses of land, employ relatively few people for the expanses occupied, and contribute little to local economic growth.
By the autumn the consultation exercise will have trawled through the regulatory legacy covering practically every form of economic activity you can think of.
Exemption from the law prohibiting any form of "economic activity" by American citizens in Cuba had never been granted in the 40-year history of the embargo.
