Sentence examples for hit industry from inspiring English sources

The continued weakness of commodity prices has also hit industry, with many firms reliant on supplying or servicing the North Sea oil sector.

The 2001 recession hit industry hard, while the bubble-fueled expansion of the decade's middle years — an expansion marked by a huge rise in the trade deficit — left manufacturing behind.

The redundancies are taking place against the backdrop of a slumping oil price, which has hit industry profits and forced producers to shelve projects around the world worth hundreds of billions of dollars.

A growing number of scientists are predicting a major El Niño weather event this year, which could wreak havoc across South America and Asia as droughts, floods and other extreme weather events hit industry and farming.

With supply swelling and demand shriveling, those likely to take the hardest hit, industry players say, are the speculative developers who initiated projects at the peak of the boom.

Compared with the rapid development of the HIT industry in China, usability research in HIT in China is very underdeveloped.

The resource boom has hit industries even further afield than construction, and not just when it comes to jobs.

It also showed that over the past year, we've even seen job openings increase in some of the nation's hardest hit industries, including construction and manufacturing.

Although the reforms are expected to hit industries like retail the most, the impact will be felt in any field where the hours are relatively long and the pay relatively low.

The economic crisis is hitting industries around the globe, and the pain is beginning to filter down into professional sports.

The turnaround in demand and pricing that began in the fall of 1998 continues, which should make it easier for the industry to hit our industry growth expectations of 15% for 1999," he said in a note released this morning.