Sentence examples for conspiracy cost from inspiring English sources

"Was this because of legitimate oversight, incompetence, conspiracy, cost cutting or negligence?

The government said the conspiracy cost consumers more than $100 million over two years and added $2 to $5 to the price of new releases and bestsellers.

Her role in the ensuing conspiracies cost the life of her lover, the seigneur de La Môle (Joseph de Boniface), in 1574.

Archer Daniels Midland pleaded guilty to a price-fixing conspiracy that cost consumers millions of dollars a year in higher prices for soft drinks and detergents.

Speaking at a news conference in Washington, where his firm is based, Mr. Small asserted that an antitrust conspiracy had cost nurses in Memphis $14,000 each annually, in Albany $6,200 each, in Chicago $5,400 each and in San Antonio $1,300 each.

Those who favor this "conspiracy that cost e-book purchasers millions of dollars," says the government, mostly do so because it favors their own economic self-interest.

At other times his flammable combination of personality cult and conspiracy theory has cost him control.

Perhaps Krafft's obsession with Holocaust conspiracy theory is costing him his creativity; that would be karmically interesting.

But Mr Watson was one of the few MPs to voice doubts about the legislation in the Commons earlier, where Home Secretary Theresa May accused the Labour MP of finding a "conspiracy at all costs".

Either they have exposed a cost-saving conspiracy between the dental establishment and the NHS that is costing people their good health and, in some cases, their lives - or they are lending credibility to a classic case of medical scaremongering that helps line the pockets of greedy dentists.

Prosecutors said the conspiracy artificially inflated the cost of those products for consumers around the world.