Sentence examples for consortium of industry from inspiring English sources

In May, as the Miami case progressed, a strange consortium of industry lobbyists, Florida officials and plaintiffs' lawyers involved in recent state tobacco lawsuits successfully pushed a bill through the Florida Legislature.

After calling the program an "unprecedented" step that "ultimately will change the face of drug testing in this country," a consortium of industry groups that manages it says not a single lab has been accredited.

A statement from a consortium of industry associations, including the Afdel group, which represents software companies including Google, noted their "satisfaction" that the council had taken into account their "recommendations and thorough consultation".

Which is why she's also chairwoman of Housing First!, the local consortium of industry advocates whose meticulous five-page letter to Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg on Dec. 4 reads like a blueprint for the $3 billion public housing plan he announced Dec. 10.

This upstart festival, which made a case for the cultural importance of dance and performance work often dismissed as marginal (if it's even discussed), was started not by a theater or consortium of industry insiders, but by a lone 28-year-old dynamo, armed with only a laptop, gamine good looks and seemingly inexhaustible energy reserves: Thomas Benjamin Snapp Pryor.

Instead, the winner was a "consortium" of industry players — a consortium that includes Apple, RIM, Microsoft, Sony, and others.

In the early 1990s, Palmer, then the lobbyist for the Western Fuels Association, a consortium of coal industry groups, founded the Greening Earth Society, one of the first industry front groups to promote misinformation about climate change.

There is already a measure to evaluate data centre energy efficiency: the power usage effectiveness metric, developed by The Green Grid, a consortium of technology industry leaders including Microsoft and Sun Microsystems.

Alliance's name was similar to that of Hope Now, a nonprofit consortium of mortgage industry companies and counseling organizations that last year began a widely publicized initiative to offer free foreclosure counseling to borrowers.

Ted and his team had been funded by Redpoint and a consortium of cable industry companies to the tune of $98M.

In 2009 a research consortium of government, industry and three Universities known as the Structural Timber Innovation Company (STIC) commenced an extensive R&D 5 year program with a total budget of $10m NZD.