Sentence examples for industry collecting from inspiring English sources

The Minerals Management Service, which regulates offshore drilling, went along with these requests partly because the agency has for years had a dual role of both fostering and policing the industry — collecting royalty payments from the drilling companies while also levying fines on them for violations of law.

This channel had been a preferred route for sea-borne trade between England and continental Europe in medieval times, probably providing "a large part of the early prosperity of Kent", besides supporting a local industry collecting salt, but it was progressively blocked by silt.

The UK live music industry collects more revenue than recorded music, according to the chief economist of the Performing Rights Society.

Jim Thompson, the Delaware-born designer credited with revitalizing Thailand's silk industry, collected historic artwork from Thailand (as well as from Burma and Laos).

While the farming industry collects about 41 billion euros in direct aid, this year, 13.6 billion euros more went to rural development programs — to encourage diversification by financing projects like organic farming, renewable energy and farm tourism.

Newspapers will then probably join forces to set up a collecting society, rather as the music industry collects royalties on songs.Google has said that having to pay for articles could "threaten its very existence".

Today, the global geoservices industry collects, shares, and analyzes data on an unprecedented scale.

And then, you know, the industry collects data, or disseminates data and collects a revenue stream for that data.

Scientists will have an important part to play in helping the industry collect reliable data, Kaiser says.

According to Dow Jones VentureSource, the healthcare industry collected more VC dollars than the IT industry last year ($7.7 billion compared to $6.1 billion, respectively), which would make 2009 the first year on record that this has occurred.

To shed further light on this complex relationship, we report the results of a longitudinal study based on panel data of 414 companies in the German mechanical engineering industry collected over a five-year period.