Sentence examples for harm the industry from inspiring English sources

If it led to excessively low tariffs, it could dampen investment in the network and eventually harm the industry.

They believed low cost paperbacks would destroy literary culture and harm the industry (not to mention their own bank accounts).

"Breaking up a company that has strived for innovation and technical advancement over the past decades is proof that it will harm the industry," wrote dilbert244 on an ABCNews.com message board.

Open-source software gained ground during the dotcom boom and even more so afterwards, as a way to cut costs.Microsoft, the world's biggest software company, went from laughing at the idea to fighting it, giving warning that there might be legal risks associated with using open-source software and even calling it a "cancer" that threatened to harm the industry.

Microsoft has argued -- as it did again in its filing yesterday -- that the government proposal was "punitive in concept and effect," and would harm the industry and consumers by effectively hobbling the company's ability to freely add new technology to Windows.

Factor in the weak dollar and export sales for 2004 and 2005 will be even healthier.So, would public knowledge of watering-back harm the industry's health, both at home and abroad?

But it warns that such barriers to free trade will harm the industries they are designed to protect.

Opponents contend that the ban also harms the industry that markets electronic games and jukeboxes to bars.

The battles had harmed the industry: fearing disrupted supplies, customers in Japan, Tasmania's biggest market for wood chips, had started looking elsewhere, as had other buyers in Asia.The agreement's core deal offered certainty on both sides.

Movie pirates are also more likely to cut down their piracy if they feel they are harming the industry compared with people who illegally download music, according to Cox and fellow Portsmouth University economist Professor Alan Collins.

Not so! (As if they didn't have a precedent to cite…) It should be good news, in a weird way, to people who pirate movies and bleat that their doing so isn't harming the industry one bit.