Sentence examples for industry was flat from inspiring English sources

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

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.

But do buyers in Miami, a resort town whose real estate industry was flat on its back just three years ago, care that Mr. Pérez spent $50,000 to get a tree from Canada that produced an 18-foot-long table for the One Ocean club room?

Investment in the semiconductor industry was flat in Q2, and investment in networking companies, a favorite during the Internet-boom years, showed another drop in a long string of investment declines.

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.

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.