Sentence examples for dictates price from inspiring English sources

The cars on Mr. Smith's list all come in under the $25,000 budget cap, but as always, condition dictates price.

This sees the company take on some of the risk as it is its algorithm and continually growing business intelligence data that dictates price, rather than an auction or tendering model.

Cable calls for a new house-building programme, but in truth this is a nonsense when the market dictates prices, and always will.

They want the government to pull back, letting the market dictate price, terms and availability.

Farms.com (Private www.farms.com CHIEF EXECUTIVE: Robert Sparks MODEL: Marketplace DESCRIPTION: Traditionally, farmers have been at the mercy of local grain mills or livestock outfits that dictate price.

Instead of high-value business demand, cost-sensitive consumer products such as iPods, GPS, video games and cellphones dictated price concessions from chip suppliers.

It once practically dictated price; now it faces pressure at the low end from Dell and China's Huawei, and at the pricier end from Juniper and HP, which closed on its acquisition of 3Com for $2.7 billion last April.

But imagine if cabdrivers had been allowed to charge passengers whatever they wanted, as opposed to a dictated price per one-eighth of a mile set by Washington bureaucrats?

Once plants are being grown specifically for lignocellulosic ethanol production, this technique could be applied in an agricultural context to dictate price per ton based on a predicted hydrolysis yield that is unique to the methods employed by each processing plant.

In these systems, government does not dictate prices.

Then, taking the next step in deregulation, legislators decided to let the market dictate prices.