Sentence examples for lost industries from inspiring English sources

In the other of his three books, "The Rings of Saturn", a hypersensitive narrator wanders around Norfolk and Suffolk, contemplating lost industries, civilisations, times and people in a manner that verges on affectation and self-parody.

Like the Dutch Surrealist Pieter Ouborg, Mr. Blayer creates a distinct mood in his paintings: an atmosphere, which is punctuated by an obsession with the edges of our existence, whether it is at the foot of nature's most awe-inspiring vistas or amid the decaying waste of some of our lost industries.

The city lost industry and citizenry.

But like so many other upstate towns, Catskill lost industry -- its lingerie and thermostat factories -- and its downtown was eviscerated by the growth of bland shopping malls nearby.

According to the company, the issue of counterfeit medicines causes hundreds of thousands of deaths each year and leads to an estimated $75 billion in lost industry revenue annually.

In "Global Trade and Conflicting National Interests," Ralph E. Gomory and William J. Baumol found that when a high-wage economy loses industries to a low-wage economy, the welfare of the more developed nation is harmed.

Just as the corporations were unwilling to compete in safety at the expense of profitability, state governments were unwilling to compete in safety at the expense of losing industries and jobs.

"As you lose industry in towns, you lose bowling teams," Mr. Rich said.

Instead, it squandered our funds on unsafe, speculative telecommunications investments that tanked -- lousy companies in a losing industry".

Not only have jobs been lost in industry, but industrial FDI flows have switched from Latin America to Asia.

Economic problems, combined with labor and political actions, devastated efficiency in production, with many workdays lost in industries in the 1970s.