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- verb Present participle of
industrialise .
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Examples
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These tactics have worked so far in de industrialising areas and most certainly with a flood of six or seven immigrants in it.
The worst possible thing to find on your doorstep ... a racist leaflet full of lies from the BNP Norfolk Blogger 2009
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As it is, our workers are having to use their slowly growing wages to pay ever-higher prices in depreciating pounds for scarcer food and fuel whose prices are being driven up by the rapidly industrialising countries of Asia.
And as people get poorer, the buck stops with you, Mervyn King | Will Hutton 2011
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Tea production in a factory in Vietnam, one of the six rapidly industrialising 'Civets' countries.
The Civets: a guide to the countries bearing the world's hopes for growth 2011
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The second focus – not emphasised sufficiently in the acres of media anguish over dumbed down/up A-level results – is the very obvious point that higher education is a major export industry for post-industrial Britain, as it is even more so for the rapidly de-industrialising United States.
We need an educated workforce – and an educated citizenry 2010
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Nevertheless, it represented a step away from the elitism of nineteenth-century feminist politics, shifting its focus from women of privilege to the predicament of working women of all classes in the rapidly industrialising cities.
Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008
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International Journal of Technological Learning, Innovation and Development is devoted to the study of the nature of technological innovation processes, at the level of firms, industries/clusters, and countries, the various influences on such processes as well as their implications for industrial growth, techno-economic and social development in the context of contemporary late-industrialising countries
September 2007 2007
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He suggests that "industrialising the countryside" is an option we may need to be looking at, in fact he suggests many things other than the blooming obvious - follow the example of the French and built new nuclear power stations.
Archive 2009-09-11 2009
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But in both cases as the industrialising economies caught up with the American economy the pegged exchange rates became increasingly inappropriate.
George Cooper: An Explanation of the Current Financial Crisis 2008
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We are born into a world already scarred by the internationalising and industrialising of slavery in the early modern period, and our human inheritance is shadowed by it.
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Rapidly industrialising countries should be encouraged to commit to reduce their energy intensity by 30% by 2020 (an average of 4% per year), and agree to emissions reduction targets thereafter.
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