It was now time, he and his colleagues believed, to restore a pre-industrial template to prominence.
Therefore, as a country, which did not have enough industrial development, agriculture gained prominence in economic activities.
Over time the composition of wealth changed; agricultural land declined in importance while industrial capital factories, machinery and intellectual property gained prominence.
In waspish, ironic prose, Tarkington documents with certain glee the decline of the Ambersons, an old money family who fail to adapt in any way to the cultural transformation sweeping through their country as industrial tycoons rise to wealth and prominence.
The development of new technologies and techniques for industrial carbon reduction has risen to prominence in contemporary engineering and economics studies, a trend triggered by rising levels of concern regarding climate change.
The debate over whether God wants humans to exploit the Earth's resources really only came into prominence slightly before the industrial revolution, when humans began spewing more pollution into the environment, Bookless said.
The quest for renewable sustainable energy sources has given biomass a prominence it had lost during the industrial revolution after the discovery of convenient fossil fuels like coal and oil.
The differences suggested that the prominence of carbohydrate metabolism genes from the industrial waste plant, and the genes related to defense factors in the household waste plant, were the result of selection in each of those communities.
We have seen that mass-production in industry has led to a re-evaluation of pre-industrial techniques — artisanal goods, à la Etsy, grew in prominence and value — as people start to cherish the idiosyncratic and the hand-made.
The milieus of industrial complexes and their potential reuse for tourism have gained prominence worldwide.
