sunset industry

In the West, steel is referred to as a sunset industry.

It would be completely scandalous if we were knocked back again by an old-fashioned sunset industry that thinks only of itself.

Sunrise and sunset industries may involve other market failures.

And certainly not the unskilled, unemployed dropouts who cannot even find work in the old sunset industries.

A sunset industry is an industry in decline, one that has passed its peak or boom periods.

Agriculture and aquaculture in Hong Kong are considered sunset industries.

Sunset industries are those in long-term decline.

In such circumstances, an industrial policy that seeks faster and more efficient rationalization of the sunset industry may be advantageous.

In the industrialized nations, we have two separate economies: sunrise industries and sunset industries.

Sunset industries present different problems.

The law change has been accused of having turned the New Zealand business into a 'sunset industry' which will eventually die out.

Going back on the agreements would penalise those countries, for they cannot possibly compete successfully with government-protected sunset industries.

Though the Senate trial has been on a respirator for days, Monicagate is no sunset industry.

It celebrates the advent of the post-industrial economy and prepares lists of sunset industries to be written off.

Greater coordination between member states to develop industrial policies which are effective and do not result in protectionist programmes to sustain "sunset industries".

This directly challenges the notion of a hard distinction between sunrise industries and sunset industries with the latter doomed inevitably to decline.

'Shipbuilding isn't a sunset industry.

Swan Hunters is not, as the Trade and Industry Minister described, an out of date sunset industry of yesterday.

Mr. Komatsu rejected the view that Japanese whaling is a sunset industry, heavily subsidized and providing employment for only 200 workers.

There is a profound cultural fear of ageing, which glorifies the young and deprecates anything old: "ageing infrastructure", "sunset industries".

"Japan should discard these sunset industries without hesitation," Dr. Kwan, the government expert on China, said of the agricultural products protected by the farm lobby.

A. We're trying to find talented managements which operate fast-growing businesses, highly profitable businesses in sunrise industries, as opposed to sunset industries.

With the growth of tourism and service sectors, the sunset industries which cause serious pollution are expected to fade in the hope of building a healthy ecological system.

The southern region continues a difficult transition out of sunset industries (mainly coal and steel), while sunrise industries (chemicals, high-tech, and services) dominate in Flanders.

By Mr. Fallows's own account, traditional print journalism may be a "sunset industry" and TV news is already, to most Americans, the only news.