Sentence examples for lost industry from inspiring English sources
The city lost industry and citizenry.
The two counties have deeply rural hinterlands shading into wild and empty upland, bare of settlements but rich in the relics of lost industry.
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.
Series two ends with dockworker and minor criminal Nicky Sobotka crying in the rain for his lost relatives and his lost industry, over the grimly ironic sounds of I Feel Alright by Steve Earle.
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 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.
"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".
Using an economist's hypothetical perspective, one would assume firms and workers in the losing industry move to the exporting sector and take advantage of the gains from trade.
Proponents say California is losing industry jobs to states that offer such incentives.
