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
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Light and heavy industry could be seen inundated in the Maxar images.
—Patrick Smith, NBC News, 8 June 2023
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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
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Point source can be deployed at oil, gas and heavy industry facilities.
—Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 14 Jan. 2024
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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But today many of these tributaries are dammed, polluted, or choked with sediment from heavy industry.
—Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 30 Dec. 2023
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But attracting more investments in heavy industry is only one goal.
—Bychristiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 21 Sep. 2023
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Particularly hard hit are its mighty chemical and heavy industry sectors, which are now in rapid decline.
—Jim Vinoski, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
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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
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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
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First of all, most manufacturers of different types of equipment, heavy industry equipment, already have sensors built in.
—IEEE Spectrum, 29 Mar. 2023
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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
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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
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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
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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
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These differences owe something to economics and geography: the Luhansk oblast relies chiefly on agriculture, whereas heavy industry has always been centered in the Donetsk oblast.
—Melinda Haring, Foreign Affairs, 12 Aug. 2019
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Meanwhile, demand is expected to soar due to the electrification of everything from heating and transportation to steelmaking and heavy industry.
—William Wilkes, Bloomberg.com, 25 May 2023
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South Bronx property values plummeted in its wake, many white residents fled to the suburbs, and heavy industry accumulated along the borough’s waterfront.
—Geoff Dembicki, The New Republic, 2 Aug. 2023
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For some sectors of the economy, however, like heavy industry and long-haul trucking, the nation will need new and developing technologies such as hydrogen energy and carbon capture and storage.
—Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 14 Nov. 2023
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That technology can help decarbonize heavy industry, but oil companies have deployed it to capture CO2 then inject it underground to help extract more fossil fuels.
—Nadia Lopez, Fortune, 9 Nov. 2023
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But the legacy of trauma imparted by the church, the federal government, heavy industry, and European colonists’ attempts to expel or exterminate Native people centuries ago still remains.
—Lev Facher, STAT, 16 Nov. 2023
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In 2020, Sterigenics filed a lawsuit against Cobb County officials who sought to require its local facility to obtain a new occupancy permit based on a higher standard for heavy industry.
—Meris Lutz, ajc, 17 Feb. 2023
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