Sentence examples for backing of industry from inspiring English sources

Several major operators with the backing of industry heavyweights refused to ferry Greens senators Richard di Natale and Larissa Waters to reefs off Cairns, the backdrop for their election campaign announcement on reef policy on Thursday.

Despite the heavy backing of industry leaders, it is questionable whether tablet PCs will take off in the critical U.S. market.

When they started the company, the founders made a decision to hitch their wagon to Spinnaker, a project that had the backing of industry heavyweights like Google and Netflix.

The NRC -- with the backing of industry -- is trying a different approach to fire safety.

Since 1991, collegiate teams with the backing of industry and government have fielded autonomous flying robots in an attempt to perform missions requiring robotic behaviors never before exhibited by a flying machine.

More than 30 states, with the backing of industry and the federal government, are introducing a new national credentialing system for community college students and employers across manufacturing sectors.

However, offshore wind received wholehearted support, with 58% of people in favour of the government's backing of the industry, which received a boost on Monday as Rudd announced the first offshore wind development off the south coast of England.

The challenge is finding someone willing to get the backing of the industry – and then to manage the process of soliciting and choosing tracks from the huge number of independent labels.

Mr Levin says he has "never known it so political" at the FCC.The FCC's proposal to liberalise national ownership rules for broadcast-TV companies, by lifting the proportion of the country's households one company is allowed to reach from 35% to 45%, had the backing of the industry.

But the Senate has still not acted to fix many of the flaws in the nation's food safety system — although a bill to do so has broad bipartisan support, is a priority for the Obama administration and has the backing of both industry and consumer groups.

The Association for UK Interactive Entertainment recently launched the Next Gen skills campaign – an initiative that has the backing of big industry names such as Microsoft, Google, Sony and Nintendo and also the Guardian – calling for fundamental changes to the secondary education system, including the introduction of a computer science course within the national curriculum.