Sentence examples for virtual industry from inspiring English sources

This has blossomed into a virtual industry.

UNDERNEATH its frivolous façade, the entertainment business is actually a modern "virtual" industry.

A virtual industry of artists and arts organizations springs into action when the weather turns sultry.

In the process, she has spawned a virtual industry of Web sites devoted to mocking, reviling or simply haranguing her -- often with the same blunt mean-spiritedness they complain of regarding the good doctor.

As literature's place in society has become more problematic and peripheral, and as humanistic education has grown into a virtual industry with a large group of professionals serving as one another's judges, criticism has evolved into a complex discipline, increasingly refined in its procedures but often lacking a sense of contact with the general social will.

He told friends that his research for a film on the looting had uncovered gangs that have made a virtual industry of ransacking sites and exporting the looted treasures to antiquities markets across the world, and that he considered some of the gangs potentially dangerous.

The continuing influence of "Candide" is perhaps best measured by its many derivatives, a virtual Voltaire industry in the publishing world.

"It is in the common interest of both the public and the virtual currency industry to bring virtual currencies out of the darkness and into the light of day through enhanced transparency," Mr. Lawsky's notice said.

The big challenge for the nascent virtual advertising industry is to persuade television networks to allow the inclusion of virtual advertising in such programmes as soap operas and comedy shows.

What might have been a routine family film quickly morphed into a virtual cottage industry as international enthusiasm for Herbie, the magical VW, spawned fan clubs, collectibles, and a loyal following that would span generations.

The development of the multimillion-pound virtual romance industry in Japan reflects the existence of a growing number of people who don't have a real-life partner, said Yamada.