Sentence examples for industry attributed from inspiring English sources

The institute, a nonprofit financed by the insurance industry, attributed the findings to a voluntary effort between itself and automakers that began in 2003.

Among the station's most prized audience segment, adults 25 to 54, WBLS was ranked No. 3. Before the merger, the two stations had been suffering in the ratings, which some executives and critics of the industry attributed, at least partly, to changes in how Arbitron measures audiences.

Many in the marijuana industry attribute the sales boom to a tipping point in social acceptance.

The parking industry attributes price increases to a boom in property values.

(Many in the industry attribute the trend to the immense popularity of "Downton Abbey," which has given millions of Chinese viewers a window into Edwardian upstairs-downstairs living).

Mr. Thillou and others in the French industry attribute the drop in drinking less to a health kick than to an evolution in taste.

The music industry attributes a precipitous drop in sales over the last two years to online file-trading by people who have become accustomed to getting their music free through computer programs like Napster and KaZaA, and movie studios fear the same fate is about to befall them as more people get high-speed Internet connections at home.

Yet it is still a challenge for music with lyrics that criticize nuclear power to receive a hearing on mainstream radio, television or to be released by major labels — a situation that many in the music industry attribute to the commercial power wielded by nuclear power companies.

Despite its sharp decline, G.M's results were better than expected, which industry analysts attributed to a sales blitz with offers of zero-interest, long-term financing deals.

The music industry has attributed the overall drop in music sales to a variety of factors, including a soft economy and fewer hit songs.

Many investors had fled everything related to real estate because of the sagging housing market, though industry analysts attributed the reversal of fortunes for REITs largely to the credit problems that started in the subprime mortgage market.