Sentence examples for industry promoted from inspiring English sources

In ads, the industry promoted car phones as must-have accessories for the elite.

The American oil industry promoted transparency initiatives when participation was voluntary, and the numbers to be reported were more generalized, but it has balked at the kind of specific, mandatory reporting that Lugar and Cardin urged.

The questioning of Mr. Rupp touched on two of them: trying to prove that the industry hid the adverse effects of secondhand smoke and trying to prove that the industry promoted "independent research" that the government contends was anything but.

As Matt Richtel wrote in The Times last week, the mobile phone industry promoted the glamour and convenience of "car phones" for years while failing to heed warnings that driving and phoning can be a deadly mix.

"Every fan who bought a ticket to see games for the past 20 years has been witness to a fraud — an industry promoted as honest that is in fact rooted in cheating for profit," said Representative Betty McCollum, Democrat of Minnesota.

The boom of the oil industry promoted the country's economy but also the government's revenue.

How does the food industry promote overeating? A. Just by promoting eating.

That some in the fashion industry promote the slang term "wifebeater" for a particular type of undershirt is incomprehensible.

The industry, promoting a tougher bankruptcy law that President Bush is likely to sign, has tried to depict a culture of spendthrift deadbeats.

A researcher with the Sierra Club, Caroline Snyder, said, "Instead of protecting the public, they are right there in there with industry promoting the practice".

The seed industry promotes modern hybrid, seedless "triploid" watermelon because it is more profitable, not because seedless watermelons are bigger, better or improved.