Sentence examples for destroy independent from inspiring English sources

The class-action complaint, filed in New York on Feb 15., claims that by entering into confidential agreements with the Big Six publishers, who control approximately 60percentt of print book revenue in the U.S., Amazon has created a monopoly in the marketplace that is designed to control prices and destroy independent booksellers.

Jeffrey Preston Bezos likes to think most of his 244 million customers love him and his company, despite accusations that it is destroying independent bookshops, publishers, music labels and high streets across the world by selling goods so cheaply and allegedly ill-treating its staff in the process.

While Starbucks has been accused of destroying independent coffee houses, the opposite is true: The company transformed a commodity into a premium product, taught millions of Americans to spend $3 (or more) for lattes and cappuccinos, and thus spurred the growth of the specialty coffee industry.

But it did destroy the Independent's independence and fatally undermine the empire of Conrad Black.

"For a global mastodon like YouTube to further undermine the value of music to a level well below existing streaming services can spread like a virus and destroy the independent recording industry, labels and artists alike," said Kristoffer Rom, co-chairman of DUP in Denmark.

"It is essentially aimed at destroying large independent businesses," he said.

"Putin has really painted himself into a corner by destroying every independent source of power in Russia.

We've grown accustomed to bankers such as ex-Goldman director Rajat Gupta, serving time for insider trading, and managers such as Bernie Madoff destroying the independent financial futures of trusting clients.

Scathingly critical of the recording industry, he blames MTV described as a "teenage reality show channel"—for putting a pretty face on music and destroying the independent valuation of actual sound.

On January 12th, Herrera de Noble published an open letter in Clarín, blaming her imprisonment on a plot to destroy Argentina's independent press.

The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, wants to destroy Ukraine as an independent country and to restore the Soviet Union, Ukrainian prime minister Arseny Yatseniuk said on Saturday.