Sentence examples for grubby industry from inspiring English sources

And it is a tiresome exception to the trendy narrative that Britain has left grubby industry behind for the sunlit uplands of a service economy.Second, oil is a dirty business, literally and figuratively.

She will laughingly dismiss, without a hint of bitterness, lists of honeymoon bikini essentials and top bedroom tips, and the whole grubby industry that has sprung up around the organisation of stag and hen nights.

He wants the government to double spending on scientific research, to retrain workers to take up "green-collar jobs", to help overhaul grubby industries and to set up a venture-capital fund to bring new technology to market.

The meeting took place at Jonathan's office, which sort of looked like the grubby porn industry location I was expecting – complete with a half-naked Pierce Brosnan painting.

The meeting took place at Jonathan's office, which sort of looked like the grubby porn industry location I was expecting, complete with a painting of a half-naked Pierce Brosnan.

A grubby, hard, depressing industry full of lonely characters and sad stories.

Here lay the heartland of East German industry, grubby as the brown coal dragged from its soil.

Wenders's New York chapter is a loving time capsule featuring the Rockaway Beach boardwalk and the organist at Shea Stadium; his German towns blend grim industry and grubby necessity.

"But it is profoundly disturbing that our public policy landscape has become so grubby that the alcohol industry can buy political persuasion during the critical time of establishing election policy platforms that should be in the public interest," Thorn said.

Growing up in Hollywood, Jennifer Juniper Stratford became obsessed with the dreamlike realm of the screen while simultaneously coming to terms with the industry's grubby realities.

He always wanted to be a journalist and came of age in the industry's grubbiest and most glamorous era.