Sentence examples for pillar sectors from inspiring English sources

"There is clearly a growing economic nationalism in China that is leading to discrimination against foreign investors in pillar sectors of the economy," said Myron Brilliant, vice president for Asia at the United States Chamber of Commerce.

The state still dominates in strategic "pillar" sectors such as energy production and heavy industries, but private enterprise has expanded enormously, with around 30 million private businesses recorded in 2008.

Germany's three-pillar banking sector comprises savings banks, co-operative banks and private banks.

The trouble is that the contributions into these plans do not match those going into the DB schemes.The erosion of the private-sector pillar casts doubt on the sustainability of Britain's cheap public pensions.

Building societies, the other pillar of the sector, also said there was no need to reconsider their status despite some doomsayers arguing the decline of Standard Life had shown that mutuals lacked the financial muscle of listed counterparts.

Renewable energies are a key pillar of power sector decarbonisation.

It was not that long ago that Bank of America was viewed as a pillar in the banking sector.

The global drone market has been rapidly expanding, attracting loyal consumers while integrating itself as an emerging pillar in the technological sector.

Liu's sentiments tend to echo the general feeling within Singapore's biomedical community at the moment as the Singapore government goes all out to grow the country's life sciences industry as the "fourth pillar" of its manufacturing sector.

Pastoralism, as a non-nomadic transhumant subsistence livelihood with herds of goats, sheep, cows and camels, remains a sociocultural pillar of the rural sector but of diminishing economic importance.

"UNICEF has the lead role of the Multi-Sector Assistance pillar to respond to gender-based violence in the framework of the STAREC," she said.