Sentence examples for industrial devastation from inspiring English sources

The structure will be visible from space, a hulking shell of steel in the midst of a landscape of industrial devastation.

"The second point is that in 1979 Scotland was told vote 'No' in the referendum and you'll get a stronger parliament and what we got was a Conservative government for 18 years that we never voted for, industrial devastation and no parliament.

Pessimists fear this process will leave post-industrial devastation in its wake back home.

The very phrase "brownfield site" conjures up a picture of post-industrial devastation – a far cry from the reality of places such as Canvey Wick in Essex.

Fiat not only used to dominate the Italian car market; it also used to symbolize Italy's astounding industrial growth after the devastation of World War II.

The impact of the 10-year armed struggle for independence from the Portuguese (1964-1974) and the 15-year externally financed insurgency (1977-1992) resulted in the devastation of industrial and governmental infrastructures, including health clinics and schools [ 2].

And in fact almost every aspect of Japanese life has been changing during the lost decade, and would have been regardless of the politicians supposedly guiding the country.The devastation of the industrial economy is, paradoxically, evidence of such change.

Only after recovery will it be clear whether this reflects widespread devastation among small industrial firms, or simply a prudent tendency to slow production temporarily in the hope of surviving the crisis.But it is China's labour-intensive smaller firms rather than its energy-intensive ones that most depend on exports, and there is no ambiguity about the difficulty they face.

The manufacturing boom of the postwar years was an oddity, and there will be no repeat of the concatenation that made it happen: The backlog of innovations stored up during the Great Depression and World War II; the devastation of other industrial powers, Germany in particular, which gave the United States a competitive edge.

But that naturally declined, as other industrial economies recovered from the devastation of the war and decolonization took its agonizing course.

Few industrial disputes have caused so much devastation for so little gain.