Sentence examples for consortium started from inspiring English sources

A few weeks ago TVO, a Finnish consortium, started work on the first new nuclear plant to be built on either side of the Atlantic in a decade.

Iridium's satellite telephone and paging service was promoted as a revolution in global communications when an international consortium started it in January 1999.

As the markets crashed, banks went belly-up, credit froze and real estate values plummeted, cracks in the original consortium started to appear.

The movement, primly called the consortium, started four years ago by CUNY, Northeastern University, the University of Maryland and St. Mary's Law School in Texas.

The first food price deflation since the British Retail Consortium started compiling records in 2006 will come as a relief to hard-pressed shoppers in the runup to Christmas.

In what it expects to become "the YouTube of online learning," edX, the nonprofit online consortium started by Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is joining forces with Google to start a new open-source learning platform, Open edX, and Web site, MOOC.org, that will let individuals, businesses and institutions offer online courses to a global audience.

Multiple independent studies and international consortiums started sequencing large numbers of samples from both cancer genomes and exomes [ 26].

"Non–Human Rhythms One," made from bacterial consortiums, starts with a deep tone, much like what you hear inside an airplane, that seems to grow in intensity as if building suspense for something in a movie.

The International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium got started a decade ago, when sequencing was in its infancy.

During 1998, a group of energy companies, together with scientific institutes and environmental authorities in Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, France, and the U.K., formed the Saline Aquifer CO2 Storage (SACS) Project Consortium and started to collect relevant information about the injection of CO2 into the Utsira formation and similar underground structures around the North Sea.

According to BBC News, the Consortium was started on Facebook last week and plans to send the extremist group hundreds of pairs of pink underwear on Valentine's Day in response to the group's violent bar attacks on women last month.