Sentence examples for peculiar industry from inspiring English sources

As was true of the pomp-inflated James announcement, the talk-show story was only fully comprehensible to those who grasped the methods and imperatives of the peculiar industry in question — though by this point, when the arts pages read like a softened version of the business pages, that meant practically all of us.

As insiders in this peculiar industry say, this is the only business where you can stick dirt between two pieces of waste paper and get paid for it.

Container shipping has traditionally been one of those peculiar industries where strong demand for a vital service (the container business is growing twice as fast as world GDP) doesn't translate into consistent profitability.

LET'S begin with the peculiar name, industry(food).

Nearly a decade ago, I wrote an article about how workers in a peculiar American industry were beginning to worry about subprime home loans.

Working in P.R. for Giorgio Armani taught me a lot about that particular — I almost said 'peculiar' — industry.

Ford, in fact, declared 2004 -- which under the industry's peculiar calendar has already begun -- "the year of the car".

Another limitation, says the FASB, is that non-financial measures tend to be peculiar to a single industry or even company, making comparisons hard.There is already plenty of non-financial information floating around about companies.

Hunting, shooting and...shopping Going metric Adland's test tube Bits of memory Rockefeller revolutionary ReprintsThe desire to commemorate past achievements seems especially peculiar in the computer industry, given its obsessive focus on the future, its mania for constant improvement and the speed with which its products become obsolete.

There should be plenty to talk about, with the government's peculiar regulation of the industry near the top of the list.

A peculiar feature of sports industries in general and leagues in particular is that their product is competition.