13 sentences with 'factories'

Example sentences and phrases with the word factories and other words derived from it.

« Car factories exist in every industrialized country, but they are scattered. »
« When Henry and Clara moved to Detroit in 1891, there were already factories producing automobiles in France. »
« In India they established self-governing merchant colonies (called factories) run by the English East India Company (EIC), which had a legal monopoly on trade like its Dutch counterpart in the Netherlands. »
« By the mid-18th century, British power in India was limited to its factories, which served as clearing houses for trade with Indian merchants. »
« Meanwhile, Portugal's overseas empire was progressively reduced as its colonies and factories were confiscated or handed over to the Dutch and British in the 17th century. »
« The iconic battles at the turn of the century between rifle-wielding European soldiers and the peoples they conquered in Africa and parts of Asia were not just about the guns; they were about the factories that made them, the calories that fed the soldiers, the steamships that transported them there, the telegraph lines that transmitted orders thousands of miles away, the medicines that kept them healthy, and so on... all of which represented a sea change, all of which represented an epochal change with respect to the economic and technological reality of the peoples who were trying to resist European imperialism. »
« Thus, there was a "surplus population" (to quote Ebenezer Scrooge from A Christmas Carol, speaking of the urban poor) of peasants who were available to work in the first generations of factories. »
« In short, nobles often looked down on those who made their wealth not from land, but from factories. This attitude helped to hold back the advent of industrialism for decades. »
« Japanese officials and merchants were sent abroad to learn about foreign technology and practices, and European and American advisors were brought in to guide the construction of factories and train a new, modernised army and navy. »
« Most importantly, British factories produced twice as many new aircraft as German factories during the war. Thus, the British Royal Air Force was able to counter German attacks with new, effective fighters and increasingly experienced pilots. »
« Incredibly, the Soviets were able to use this respite to literally dismantle their factories and transport them to the east, out of range of German bombers. Entire factories, particularly in the Ukraine, were stripped of engines, turbines and any other useful equipment that could be moved, and shipped hundreds of miles away from the front lines. There, they were rebuilt and put back to work. »
« Concentration camp prisoners (both Jewish and non-Jewish) were all, by definition, slaves of the Nazi regime, put to work in factories, quarries, forests and workshops and "paid" in meagre rations. »
« Nazi extermination camps were not intended to house prisoners for slave labour; new arrivals at an extermination camp were usually dead within two hours. They were, in short, "death factories", murder production facilities that operated on industrial timetables. »

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