Sentences with phrase «industry at the mercy»

We are a service industry at the mercy of our clientele.

Not exact matches

Explaining how Problem A, unresolved, will lead to Problem B, which will create Industry Trend C, is much more compelling than an ideal scenario that could ultimately be at the mercy of Industry Trend C, anyway.

We're at the mercy of the numbers for our journey through America's Top States For Business (that, and the increasingly delay - prone airline industry).

Externally, it has put itself at the mercy of international capitalism, becoming a dependent region with an industry, a labor force and an agriculture developed as a function of the North American and (to a lesser extent) the western European metropolis.

Caroline Scott - Thomas writes in NutraIngredients that pink slime is «safe, nutritious — and icky» and that the food industry needs to take action «to avoid being at the mercy of the next consumer scare.»

Prof McLean sent the analysis to the Telegraph as Alistair Darling used a visit to Aberdeen, during which he spoke to oil industry leaders, to warn that independence would mean putting Scotland's schools and hospitals at the mercy of «a volatile and declining resource».

Construction industry advocates contend that a victory before an Oneida County judge shows that contractors need not always be at the mercy of local government officials in bid disputes.

Other societies are dealing with the rule differently: The American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics (ASCPT), half of whose members are industry scientists, plans to drop CME from its meeting altogether, according to a recent article by Kathleen Neville, a researcher at Children's Mercy Hospitals and Clinics in Kansas City, Missouri.

Unfortunately, we're also at the mercy of a self - regulated cosmetics industry that forces many of us to be exposed to vast quantities of chemicals over the course of a lifetime.

When it comes to ebooks and DRM, amazon is at the mercy of the publishing industry, which is determined to keep its business model firmly entrenched in the 19th century.

Unless investors make the effort to become educated about investing, they are at the mercy of the financial industry and media that are primarily interested in making money from the investor rather than for the investor.

The hard - core value purist hopelessly drooling over a great price... of some cheap micro-cap which trades by appointment, is at the mercy of its lenders, and is fighting a relentless battle against the decline of its business & industry.

«My constitutents, along with many other Canadians,» he wrote, «are at the mercy of big business in the wind industry, and their powerful lobby, the Canadian Wind Energy Association.»

McKibben calls the Dakota Access fight, «the point in miniature of the entire climate fight: that the most vulnerable people in the world are at the mercy of the fossil fuel industry — their water, their climate, their land.»

The consumer, not knowing how the co-operative listing service infrastructure was designed and operates, has been at the mercy of the industry.