It's possible they locked in Level-5 to a certain number of titles before anything from the franchise appeared elsewhere, but clearly now they no longer have that hold, if they ever did.
The choice of the base year 1986-88, a period of particularly low world price levels, has locked-in a high tariff rates period.
What is needed is an across-the-board roll back of federal spending to pre-binge levels, not locking in increased levels.
Kevin Mitchell, chairman of the Business Travel Coalition, whose members are corporations that buy large numbers of plane tickets, said the order "in effect locks in the level of competition at O'Hare and locks out new entrants".
Republicans, who agreed that there was a potential framework a week ago, counter that the deal was spoiled by Democrats, who refused to lock in the level of entitlement savings or tax changes they would accept, and began to demand more revenues to match any substantive entitlement changes.
The agreement needs to have a mechanism for reviewing and monitoring policies, as well as the ability to increase the level of ambition, rather than locking in low levels of ambition for decades to come.
Republicans like the base spending levels in the current funding bill – sequester funding – and would seem to want to lock in those levels for longer, not shorter.
To avoid truly catastrophic climate change, the world needs to avoid new, long-term capital investments that are going to "lock in" dangerous levels of carbon emissions.
In interviews, several young men here agreed, saying that Mr. Kartashov spent hours trying to stop Mr. Tsarnaev from "going to the forest," or joining one of the militant cells scattered throughout the volatile region, locked in low-level guerrilla warfare with the police.
Large funds allow them to lock in high levels of fee-based personal income.[v] Indeed, a typical firm now makes two-thirds of its revenue from annual management fees rather than performance-based carried interest.[vi] The larger the fund, the more likely it is that income is tied to fund size rather than performance.
DUBLIN, June 17 (Reuters) - With the U.S. president locked in high-level meetings at a secluded hotel in Northern Ireland, first lady Michelle Obama and her daughters took the chance to investigate their Irish roots.
