Sentence examples for industry sitting from inspiring English sources

"There's an entire industry sitting on the fringes, just waiting," Mr. Firchau said.

I've spent a couple of years working in the software industry, sitting at my desk writing tedious code and I began to wonder: is this it?

"There are pharmaceutical marketers, medical device makers, health insurers and whoever is involved in the health industry sitting in the exam room, not just the doctor and patient," Dr. Ebeling said.

"But if this little group was discussing geostrategic plans for oil, it puts the issue of war in the context of the captains of the oil industry sitting down with Cheney and laying grand, global plans".

The conference – notable for the sight of Britain's captains of industry sitting in the Royal Albert Hall's cheap seats, tucking into the IoD's so-called gourmet packed lunch – features many of the usual suspects.

It also reinstates the right of the newspaper industry sitting on an appointments committee to veto members of the regulator board, as well as to block changes to the charter.

The hospitality industry is sitting up and taking notice.

An oil industry executive sitting near me said, "I watched three movies, got drunk twice and still got enough sleep to hit the ground running".

The notion that the oil industry is sitting on federal oil and natural gas prospects it has paid millions to the government to develop is ridiculous.

That's because the industry is sitting on $370 billion in unused funds, or "dry powder", that firms need to spend soon or risk giving back to investors, which means there is fierce competition for deals.

At the same time, Silicon Valley giants like Google and Apple, whose wizardry would be impossible without the continuing innovations of the semiconductor industry, are sitting on so much cash they do not know what to do with it.