Sentence examples for industry muscle from inspiring English sources

He might not have commanded enough industry muscle to make Miles Ahead, either.

Some of the changes are linked to a growing belief that close government scrutiny has made it more difficult for Microsoft, based in nearby Redmond, Wash., to flex its industry muscle.

There is a deep desire not to repeat the mistakes of previous eras, in which wave after wave of talented young innocents were vaulted out of the safety of the college system into an industry for which they were unprepared, only to be felled at the first hurdle by their lack of financial acumen, or absence of manufacturing contacts or industry muscle.

Pitting Tin Pan Alley's greatest dream-weaver against the archetypal renegade balladeer, pitting urban pop sophistication and music industry muscle against homespun folk, the Berlin-Guthrie skirmish is emblematic of a question that continues to roil a music culture obsessed with authenticity: who speaks in the true musical voice of the American people?

"And the fact that AT&T, Lucent and Motorola are involved means that this initiative has a lot of industry muscle behind it.

"Somebody in that meeting must have talked," said McBride, still outfitted as Kenny, his hands on hips, a hint of industry muscle behind the words.

But as the mayor knows, in Japan the industry's muscle is perhaps mightier than anywhere else because cigarettes are the largest source of government revenue.

Mr. Bloomberg's campaign is part of a larger attempt to turn back a powerful cultural tide, reinforced by $10 billion a year in tobacco industry marketing muscle, that has glamorized tobacco and insinuated it into our sense of fun.

It's a hard industry to muscle into given the entrenchment of printing behemoths HP, Canon and Epson.

Mr. Bachand's failed attempt to obtain basic information on the pipeline route exemplifies the recurring problems with the Obama State Department's botched review of the environmental and climate impacts of the Keystone XL pipeline: huge information gaps, conflicts of interest, industry lobbying muscle and bureaucratic bungling of the process.

Heavy investment has crowded out consumption, and heavy industry has muscled out services, as if making stuff mattered more than serving people.This week, however, China faced a less familiar complaint: it is not growing fast enough.