Sentence examples for dictating prices from inspiring English sources

The British supermarket buyers have been used to dictating prices.

With monopoly buying power, the government could tighten up on health-care spending by dictating prices for services and drugs.

Leaders must challenge existing approaches to industry and push back on the time-honored orthodoxies dictating prices, distribution and marketing.

That year Afghanistan's market overtook Myanmar as the world's largest and began dictating prices worldwide (to ignore the remarkable blip of 2001).

But to keep employment "full", successive governments, Labour and Conservative, had to intervene ever more minutely in the economy, from setting wages to dictating prices.

Antitrust attorneys suggested there could be legal complications if Amazon claimed that publishers were colluding to set prices, or dictating prices to retailers, which is illegal under a 2007 Supreme Court decision.

In these systems, government does not dictate prices.

Governments monitor and dictate prices in key industries.

Therefore, despite its best intentions to offer fair prices, jcpenney can't let customers dictate prices.

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

Moreover, it dictated prices and pushed down suppliers' margins about as far as they could go.