Sentence examples for industry petition from inspiring English sources

The Whitehouse.gov petition is nearly identical to the industry petition.

Following the release of the industry petition, I posted a petition at Whitehouse.gov for the public to sign.

Upon our return to the U.S., I organized a committee to orchestrate an publishing industry petition calling on the US Congress and President Obama to end the book embargo against Cuba.

This led the emerging industry to petition the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers to select a standard bus.

Commerce Department officials said yesterday that they would review the textile industry's petition.

In 1947 a new pinball machine called Humpty Dumpty that featured six spring-powered levers, the first flippers, allowed the pinball industry to petition the city that pinball was a game of skill, not chance.

Health Care for America Now, a coalition of liberal groups allied with President Obama, said it would use the Fourth of July holiday to circulate a "declare your independence from insurance industry monopolies" petition at parades in 44 states.

"I do think the industry should petition to remove the Spitzer initiatives because ultimately they hurt the competitiveness of our country by denying small companies the access to research analysts," he said, throwing a proverbial grenade into the auditorium.

And in the four products cited in the industry's petition yesterday -- gloves, bras, knit fabrics and dress gowns -- China's exports to the United States soared to nearly 4 billion square feet from about 484 million, according to the textile industry.

So is joint action by the competitors in an industry to petition legislators for favorable laws.

Every three years technologists, consumer advocates and, of course, industry lobbyists petition the Librarian to rule on the legality of specific technologies.