Sentence examples for lock in the existing from inspiring English sources

Grandfathering existing ownership is not ideal as it would just lock in the existing patterns.

Critics fear that the rules will in effect lock in the existing order, with only those clubs able to generate large commercial and matchday income able to compete on a regular basis.

This will lock in the smoke.

By opening this messaging option up to all users, Betterment is hoping to provide a little bit more value than the competition as a way to lock in existing customers and entice new ones to sign up.

"We were coming off a 10-year lease, and we wanted to lock in rents at existing prices," Mr. Sivin said.

However, in the short to medium term it is shown that economic risk, regulatory uncertainty and lock-in of existing technology are the most significant barriers to CHP-DH development.

In 2006 Panamanian voters approved an expansion of the Panama Canal that would add an third, larger set of locks to the existing canal; construction is planned for 2008 14.

In the perinatal case, the issue is whether a xenobiotic locks in the already existing TH2 bias among T lymphocytes, thereby preventing the genetically influenced adult balance to be achieved postnatally.

Costs can be reduced through flexibility in the timing of emission reductions by avoiding: premature retirement of capital stock or lock-in of existing technologies; and unnecessarily costly reductions in one year due to unusual circumstances when less-costly offsetting reductions can be achieved in other years.

Investing in Tizen on the Gear probably can't hurt that device's chances – with wearables, there's little reason yet for any consumer to choose one platform over another, and the initial version of the Galaxy Gear didn't sell enough to create anything like lock-in for existing users.

"Including aviation in the existing E.U.