Sentence examples for makers on behalf from inspiring English sources

The same jury will soon decide punitive damages against cigarette makers on behalf of the entire Florida class.

2. Prescription Drugs: Vote on a Democratic alternative to Medicare legislation that would provide more generous drug benefits and authorize federal officials to negotiate prices with drug makers, on behalf of beneficiaries.

C1 New Approach to Benefits Fifty of the country's largest employers are creating a buyers' club to bargain directly with drug makers on behalf of five million active and retired employees and their families.

And while the boomers nearing retirement age are generally too young to need assisted living facilities or similar housing, they already are having an impact on that market: They are influencing how and where those properties are built, as the decision makers on behalf of their parents.

In recent months, anger over rising drug costs set off a civil war within the pharmaceutical industry, pitting drug makers against other players in the health care system, including the little-known pharmacy benefit managers that negotiate with drug makers on behalf of insurers, large employers and government health programs.

Under the proposed rule, pharmacy benefit managers — the intermediaries that negotiate with drug makers on behalf of insurers and employers — would lose the legal protections that allow them to accept rebates from drug companies for brand-name drugs covered under the Medicaid and Medicare government programs.

Just like legal interest groups, these criminal organizations lobby decision-makers on behalf of their desired policies.

We hypothesized that in each experiment, making the default option more optimal will lead to more frequent health-oriented choices, and that priming parents to be the ultimate decision-makers on behalf of their child's health will potentiate this effect.

Say, representing 199,212 shares of Tesla stock valued at $62.7 million, submitted five questions to the green car maker on behalf of investors, all of which were answered by Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk.

Hattoy was a trouble-maker on behalf of people with HIV/AIDS.

As parents are often the primary reporters of symptoms and are the main decision-makers on behalf of their child, their evaluation of QoL is clinically relevant, when used in a complementary manner to child self-report when obtainable (Matza et al, 2004; Pickard et al, 2004; Eiser and Jenney, 2007).