Sentence examples for industry occurred from inspiring English sources

The first major use of vacuum technology in industry occurred about 1900 in the manufacture of electric light bulbs.

The most serious nuclear accident in the history of American nuclear-power industry occurred at the Three Mile Island plant, near Harrisburg, in 1979.

Nevertheless, a major contraction of the industry occurred in both the United States and Britain; by 1949, in fact, the producers were essentially the same as those of the prewar period.

Another important milestone for medical science and for the pharmaceutical industry occurred in 1982, when regulatory and marketing approval for Humulin®, human insulin, was granted in the United Kingdom and the United States.

The first recorded business transaction of the aerospace industry occurred in May 1906 when J.P. Morgan and Company in New York City paid the Wright brothers the forfeited deposit.

Considerable growth of the cotton textile industry occurred in the late 18th and the 19th century, and the community has remained the principal centre of the northern English cotton industry outside Lancashire, specializing in calico printing.

The first efforts to centralize the British iron and steel industry occurred during the Great Depression, in the creation (1934) of the British Iron and Steel Federation (BISF), an association of major firms that negotiated both with the government and with rival foreign cartels and firms on issues of pricing, tariffs, quotas, and other policies.

And he befriended Li Peng, who is China's second-in-command after Jiang Zemin.The proximity to Mr Li has been ideological, too: it is fair to say that every move China has made to liberalise its telecoms industry occurred, at least initially, against Mr Wu's wishes.