Sentence examples for industry is flat from inspiring English sources

Our decrepit infrastructure imposes increasing costs in lives and competitiveness, and the construction industry is flat on its back.

The auto industry is flat on its back, with Chrysler in bankruptcy, General Motors close to it, and both companies taking billions of dollars in federal money.

"Even when the industry is flat, the cash-flow generation of this business is profound," says David Gartzke, Adesa's chief executive.

But, to my mind, the most-daunting challenge facing the industry is flat or declining electric demand.

The media keeps telling me that, thanks to the new LA condom laws and the fact that the internet exists, the porn industry is flat broke.

"A lot of the industry is flat-out condescending to women," said Helaine Olen, a financial journalist and the author of the book "Pound Foolish: Exposing the Dark Side of the Personal Finance Industry".

The British film industry was flat: nobody would finance my scripts because they were too "parochial".

Sales across the book publishing industry are flat; e-books represent one possible future.

While sales in the rest of the industry are flat or declining, craft beer sales grew 17% last year.

In 2011, a year when the magazine industry was flat to down a bit, Esquire was up 13.5 percent in ad pages from the previous year.

Before the attacks on Sept. 11, the financial outlook of the $100 billion security industry was flat, said William Daly, a spokesman for Control Risks Group, a security consultant.