Meanings of industrial powerhouse in English

Their comrades had just encircled the industrial powerhouse of Breslau.

The government aims to boost local manufacturing and upgrade the economy from a commodity producer into an industrial powerhouse.

Glasgow used to produce around a fifth of the world's ships, but its days as an industrial powerhouse are over.

The disagreement comes as Germany, Europe's industrial powerhouse, seeks billions to upgrade its creaking internet infrastructure and keep its factories competitive.

The industrial powerhouse is one of Asia's richest nations and among the region's top greenhouse gas polluters on a per-capita basis.

And as Europe's industrial powerhouse, any problems in Germany mean more problems for the eurozone, but also for the wider international system.

In one key transaction, General Electric bought industrial powerhouse Avio for $4.3 billion in December.

They transformed the new republic from an agricultural community of "agrarian yeoman" into an industrial powerhouse, the quintessential modern nation.

The centre-left and centre-right are close to a draw in several battleground regions, including industrial powerhouse Lombardy, which returns the most senators.

Once an industrial powerhouse, as traditional industry declined the North became unattractive, as a result of the Troubles, to investors providing new jobs.

Industry lobby BDI says Germany cannot remain Europe's industrial powerhouse and a player in world export markets unless its industry has flexible electricity supplies.

We are no longer a nation of shopkeepers, nor are we an industrial powerhouse -today Britain has but one major export … celebrity.

Going by current trends, Europe's industrial powerhouse Germany, along with Spain and Poland, will see its population shrink from now on, slowing potential economic growth.

However, a separate reading showed that the country's exports sank well below expectations, indicating that demand for goods from the industrial powerhouse still remained languid.

A furious, private war of words ensued between Europe's industrial powerhouse, which thought PwC had overstepped its terms, and one of its biggest accounting firms.

Preston North End -the northern industrial powerhouses were in full control by now -were the best team in the land.