Sentence examples for maintain high prices from inspiring English sources

According to Rewheel, the dominant European carriers are trying to create a "digital OPEC" – a cartel designed to maintain high prices.

For their part, drug firms argue that in order to keep innovation moving, they must maintain high prices, and therefore high profits.

In its takeover of the Philadelphia market in the early aughts, Comcast relied on local demand for Phillies, Flyers, and 76ers games to depress satellite competition and thereby maintain high prices.

OPEC, meanwhile, which accounts for about a third of the world's oil exports, remains vigilant about its option of cutting production to maintain high prices once warmer spring weather starts to sap demand, but its members have been unusually vocal about another theme, the value of the dollar.

A huge stockpile helped it to maintain high prices while it successfully peddled the myth that supply was scarce.De Beers has no interest in polishing stones, only in selling the sorted rough diamonds to invited clients (known in the trade as "sightholders") at non-negotiable prices.

Saudi Arabia and other oil rich countries in the Middle East have traditionally restricted supply to maintain high prices.but increased supply from the US and the easing of sanctions on equally oil rich Iran have led to a price drop.

Some producers switched to drugs not covered by the government's price caps, or simply changed the dosage of existing drugs to maintain higher prices, exploiting a loophole in the pricing regulations.

Dairy farmers praised the decision, which could create more of a market for their products if the government decides to refill its milk inventories, thus helping maintain higher prices for dairy products.

Another merger, BP Amoco's with Arco, was challenged because both firms had large reserves in Alaska, and BP had used its market power "to maintain higher prices on the west coast by exporting crude oil to the Far East".

Publishers tried to maintain higher prices, while indies grew readership by offering budget-conscious consumers high-quality books at low prices.

He criticized the approval process of BiDil because it allowed the drug manufacturers to reformulate existing drugs so as to extend their patents and maintain higher prices.