Sentence examples for string of industry from inspiring English sources

It has also won a string of industry prizes, including four top Golden Globe awards.

Success brought Frith a string of industry awards but the kind of momentum that he built up couldn't last forever, and Heat began haemorrhaging readers last year.

The CD, which recently sold more than a million copies in its first week in stores, helped extend a nearly consistent five-month string of industry growth, as measured by weekly sales compared with year-earlier periods.

Several experts said the ruling, the latest in a string of industry victories in cases involving light cigarettes, relieved the tobacco industry of potentially billions in damages and could also deter other similar class-action lawsuits around the country.

A string of industry big-hitters fancied for the job have ruled themselves out of the process, including Dame Marjorie Scardino, the former chief executive of the Financial Times owner Pearson; former Sony chief and BBC non-executive director Sir Howard Stringer and Sarah Hoggg, a crossbencher in the Lords who was once John Major's Downing Street policy chief.

A long string of industry bankruptcies continued last month with Armstrong Coal.

This year the 20 richest women on the planet have a combined net worth of $160 billion derived from a diverse string of industries including manufacturing, finance, real estate and commodities.

JD Wetherspoon's chairman says the campaign for tax changes to help pubs survive has gained momentum after a string of big industry names gave it their backing.

An NXP takeover by Qualcomm would be the latest in a string of semiconductor industry consolidation moves made recently.

He is the latest in a string of tech industry stars to join the public policy field in recent months: Former Google exec Megan Smith was tapped to serve as the White House's CTO this past fall, and last week senior Facebook engineer David Recordon joined the White House to serve as its director of IT.

The acquisition would become the latest in a string of drug industry mergers as former rivals join forces in the face of government and corporate efforts to cut costs.