Sentence examples for general boom from inspiring English sources

I like the movie best as a portrait of a postwar land, shading from the Truman era toward that of Eisenhower, and for the attention that Paul Thomas Anderson pays to those souls, like the Joaquin Phoenix character, who are stunned and deafened, not enriched or aroused, by a general boom.

In 1946 he was arrested and tortured by North Korean police, and eventually sentenced to six years' hard labour.He established his church in Seoul formally in 1954, overseeing it through years of expansion amid a general boom in Christian conversions in South Korea.

Despite a general boom in global auto sales, competition with its Japanese counterparts has increased with the weaker yen, making Japanese automobiles cheaper in the global export market.

Where Are You, Dear General? boomed from loudspeakers, echoing between concrete towers, drowning out the cicadas.

THE city's general construction boom, of course, is continuing.

The activity, moreover, formed part of a general building boom, unmatched in Australia since the 1880s.

In general, the boom in publishing that occurred in the aftermath of Franco's death had receded by the early 21st century.

Now, to some extent soaring food prices are part of a general commodity boom: the prices of many raw materials, running the gamut from aluminum to zinc, have been rising rapidly since early 2009, mainly thanks to rapid industrial growth in emerging markets.

And while Brandeis University, in Waltham, Mass., recently decided to shutter its Rose Art Museum and sell works in its collection to shore up the school's finances, elsewhere college museums — many of them free and open to the public, as stipulated in their charters — are fresh from construction projects, mirroring the general museum boom of the last decade.

Just when welfare changes were taking place, the opportunities for and rewards of work rose sharply nationwide, not only because of a general economic boom, Professor Blank emphasized, but also because of increases in the minimum wage and in the earned-income tax credit.

The so-called housing bubble has been just another manifestation of the general inflationary boom in tangible assets.