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- verb Present participle of
industrialize .
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Examples
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Post-Decatur Japan and post-Franco-Prussian War France; both societies suffered severe cultural shocks and suffered huge obstacles – Japan in industrializing from a feudal society and France getting from out from under huge post-war reparations.
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Note 72: Brian Clarke provides insight into these processes in industrializing Toronto.
Gutenber-e Help Page 2005
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South Africa has made a good start (particularly during the recent war), in industrializing herself, and since the war, she has gone out of her way to woo customers in the rest of Southern Africa.
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They say, "We cannot migrate because you legislate against it, and we have difficulty in industrializing because we have such limited raw resources, and we have to go to the Asiatic mainland mainly for these."
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Industrialization blighted the country’s North and Midlands; prompted the majority of its population to shift from the country to putrid, overcrowded, and unregulated towns and cities, with their dark, satanic mills; and caused a demographic calamity: a generation was literally stunted, and life expectancy in industrializing areas dropped to levels unseen since the Black Death.
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Industrialization blighted the country’s North and Midlands; prompted the majority of its population to shift from the country to putrid, overcrowded, and unregulated towns and cities, with their dark, satanic mills; and caused a demographic calamity: a generation was literally stunted, and life expectancy in industrializing areas dropped to levels unseen since the Black Death.
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But it is in many ways easier for developing countries and so-called industrializing countries, like South Korea and Brazil, to put forth offers because they are under far less pressure to commit themselves formally under an agreement.
NYT > Home Page By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL 2010
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The ground rules for the Copenhagen agreement call for binding numerical commitments from the countries that were industrialized in 1992 while those still "industrializing" such as China are allowed a more flexible position.
Energy Bulletin - 2009
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Three comparable economies—Japan, Taiwan and South Korea—saw their consumption-to-GDP ratios fall by 20 to 40 percentage points during equivalent two-decade periods when they were industrializing rapidly.
Misreading Beijing's Economic Tea Leaves Yukon Huang 2011
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Three comparable economies—Japan, Taiwan and South Korea—saw their consumption-to-GDP ratios fall by 20-40 percentage points during equivalent two-decade periods when they were industrializing rapidly.
Misinterpreting China's Economy Yukon Huang 2011
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