How to Use heavy industry in a Sentence

heavy industry

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  • Gaza has none of the heavy industry that would support weapons production in most of the world.
    — Brad Lendon, CNN, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Light and heavy industry could be seen inundated in the Maxar images.
    — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 8 June 2023
  • His goal is to showcase his record and translate that into votes in places like Northampton County and the wider Lehigh Valley that was long famous for its heavy industry.
    — Akayla Gardner, Fortune, 20 Mar. 2024
  • If adopted widely, the devices could help clean up heavy industry, such as steel-making, in Germany and elsewhere.
    — Melissa Eddy, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2024
  • Point source can be deployed at oil, gas and heavy industry facilities.
    — Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 14 Jan. 2024
  • Meanwhile, far-worse polluters such as vehicle exhaust and heavy industry get a longer time to adjust.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2023
  • Some 450 miles to the southeast, Pittsburgh’s steel legacy remains a core part of its identity, even as the city hardly resembles its days of heavy industry.
    — Santul Nerkar Akilah Townsend, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2024
  • Shenyang is the capital of Liaoning Province, one of three large provinces in the northeast that constitute the cradle of China’s heavy industry.
    — Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Mercury is naturally occurring, but Robertson-Thompson said most of it probably gets in the lake from the heavy industry in the area.
    — Jared Quigg, Chicago Tribune, 4 June 2023
  • Now, all that separates the Bay Villa homes and heavy industry is a two-lane road dominated by the company’s truck traffic.
    — Anna Phillips, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Mar. 2023
  • The plant is among the last still operating in Ukraine’s Donbas region, once the country’s center of heavy industry and now a focal point of Russian ground offensives that are ravaging towns and cities along the front line.
    — Maria Varenikova Nicole Tung, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2024
  • The tragic crash of the B-24 Liberator bomber provoked questions of why the world’s largest gas storage tank had been built in a part of the city crowded with residential neighborhoods and heavy industry.
    — Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 7 May 2023
  • Before the exploitation of coal and oil, charcoal was the only fuel that burned hot enough to forge metal; for most of its life as a commodity, it was linked with warfare and heavy industry, the rise and fall of empires.
    — Joshua Hughes, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2024
  • Still, if the rosiest projections hold, green hydrogen in heavy industry could reduce global carbon emissions by 5 percent, if not two or three times that.
    — Max Bearak Giacomo D’orlando, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2023
  • The area is known not only for its rich mix of cultures and art but also for its community’s decades-long battle with heavy industry and freeway development.
    — Emily Alvarenga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Jan. 2024
  • It can also be used for heavy industry, like steelmaking, which renewables can’t power.
    — Ella Nilsen, CNN, 19 June 2024
  • But today many of these tributaries are dammed, polluted, or choked with sediment from heavy industry.
    — Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 30 Dec. 2023
  • But attracting more investments in heavy industry is only one goal.
    — Bychristiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Particularly hard hit are its mighty chemical and heavy industry sectors, which are now in rapid decline.
    — Jim Vinoski, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Their plan could turn this Port Talbot facility into one of Europe’s most sweeping efforts to slash greenhouse-gas emissions in heavy industry.
    — Stanley Reed Francesca Jones, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2023
  • But the most promising application for green hydrogen is heavy industry.
    — S. Julio Friedmann, Foreign Affairs, 15 Sep. 2022
  • In a country where the value of land often depends on access to water, powerful interests in agriculture, heavy industry and real estate draw vast amounts of water out of the ground.
    — Christopher Flavelle, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2023
  • That carbon negativity is meant to cancel out the climate impact of hard-to-abate emissions from heavy industry, transport, and agriculture.
    — Justine Calma, The Verge, 13 June 2024
  • First of all, most manufacturers of different types of equipment, heavy industry equipment, already have sensors built in.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Preview Subscribe Increasing the supply of hydrogen is crucial to global carbon goals as a way to decarbonize hard-to-abate sectors, such as maritime transport and heavy industry.
    — Yusuf Khan, WSJ, 18 Oct. 2023
  • During the Japanese occupation, which ended in 1945, what had been a small trading port transformed into one of Taiwan’s biggest cities, a riot of heavy industry and shipbuilding.
    — Amit Katwala, WIRED, 22 Aug. 2023
  • This final piece coincided with Taiwan’s transition from a labor-intensive and heavy industry economy to a high-tech one.
    — John Liu, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2023
  • For the time being, these newfangled industries absorbed the surplus workforce expelled from heavy industry—or even rejuvenated those sectors, as in the case of steel production.
    — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 1 May 2023
  • Most of California’s carbon emissions that are driving today’s increase in global temperatures come from cars, trucks, homes and heavy industry — all of which are notably absent from this climate bond.
    — Ari Plachta, Sacramento Bee, 10 July 2024
  • Almost all the heavy industry in Shelby County – and the associated pollutants – are located in southwest Memphis, Jia added.
    — Andy Miller, USA TODAY, 29 Apr. 2024

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