"Corporate lobbyists have made sure that key services such as health, education, post, rail and water are to be opened up to the private sector, and treaties such as TTIP will lock in that privatisation for ever.
Eric Shuffler, chief of staff of the Department of Transportation, said that the new agreement reduces the fee Parsons charges for each inspection; by extending the contract, the state will lock in that lower rate until 2007.
He gives surprisingly short shrift to the huge risk in not raising the minimum wage high enough: that it will lock in insufficient income support for millions of low-wage workers who desperately need additional money.
This will lock in a trend that's already happening thanks to rising investments in wind, solar and energy efficiency and to the switch from coal to natural gas.
"It goes to the fear that we have that Republicans legally will lock in an advantage that we will never be able to overcome," Mr. Daschle said.
It represents an investment in infrastructure that will lock in decades of extraction of dirty, expensive fossil fuels at a time when we need to be rapidly pivoting away from a fossil fuel-driven energy economy – as rapidly as possible.
Not I! For this very reason, Gazelle is offering a cool deal (which ends today, so move now) that will lock in the current price of your iPhone, based on the condition it's in.
But amid all the bullishness, the question remains: Will Germany sign off on additional loans that will lock in higher profits for hedge funds, even if the end result is reduced debt for Greece.
PARIS — Hermes won a major victory Thursday in its battle to torpedo a potential takeover by its larger rival LVMH after a court cleared the French luxury group's plans to create a holding company that will lock in descendants of the founding family for 20 years.
Each of the companies in this oligopoly is in fact trying to impose the most long-lasting business model that will lock in consumers for an extended period of time.
The Global Carbon Budget Is Ticking Down here, showing that under current emissions rates, the world will hit a level of climate changing emissions that will lock in future global heating beyond 1.5 C, and far more damaging and dangerous climate change than we've bought so far.
