11 sentences with 'industry'
Example sentences and phrases with the word industry and other words derived from it.
• « Silkworms were smuggled out of China in about 550, at which point Constantinople became the heart of the European silk industry, an imperial monopoly that generated enormous wealth. »
• « It was illegal to try to compete with the imperial silk industry, so the huge profits went straight into the royal treasury. »
• « The only Persian industry that generated wealth independently of east-west trade was silk: under Shah Abbas I the state established a royal silk monopoly that produced most of the state's tax revenue, and when that monopoly collapsed due to the incompetence of his descendants the state struggled to stay afloat financially. »
• « This illegal industry provided the reading public, especially the reading public with little money to spend on books, with their essential access to Enlightenment thought. »
• « The first and most important industry to benefit from coal power, apart from mining itself, was the textile industry in the north of England, which harnessed steam power to drive new machines that processed cotton into finished cloth. »
• « The impact on the British economy was enormous, as was the growing dominance of its textile industry over its European rivals. »
• « Secondly, French industry had always concentrated on high quality luxury goods, and French craftsmen fiercely resisted the spread of lower quality and less skilled jobs and goods. »
• « Supporters of nationalism tended to be members of the middle classes, including everyone from artisans to the new professional class associated with commerce and industry in the 19th century. »
• « Nineteenth-century liberals were generally educated men and women, including the elites of industry, commerce and the professions, as well as the middle classes. »
• « The Saint-Simonians did not inspire a popular movement, but some members of the movement went on to play an influential role in French industry and helped lay the intellectual foundations for enterprises such as the creation of the Suez Canal between the Red Sea and the Mediterranean. »
• « Louis Pasteur developed the technique of pasteurisation to make food safe (originally in the service of the French wine industry), and went on to develop effective vaccines against diseases such as anthrax that affected both humans and animals. »