Sentence examples for obstruct competition from inspiring English sources

If ENEL were to retain control of the new joint-venture companies, it could obstruct competition.

It has already passed the Competition Act, allowing the competition authorities to fine firms up to 10% of turnover for price-fixing, and making it a criminal offence to obstruct competition inquiries.

AT&T, which holds a 49percentt stake in Alestra, and WorldCom, a 45percentt partner in Avantel, have argued that Mexican regulators are allowing Telmex to obstruct competition and keep the bulk of the Mexican market to itself.

He described the legal challenges to the rezoning that paved the way for Riverhead Center as nothing more than "vehicles to obstruct competition" and said the suits were financed and orchestrated by Riverhead Building Supply to fend off competition from Home Depot.

As a result, the deal is likely to "obstruct competition for video programming services" by making DirecTV seem cheaper than such rivals as Netflix, Amazon Prime or Hulu.

The Obama administration revealed an executive order in April, for example, that encouraged government agencies and policy makers to block mergers that they saw as obstructing competition.

They have announced that the majority of "core and margin" places have been awarded to colleges and that they won't stand idly by if universities obstruct further competition.

Gavil and First describe in detail the cases that the Department of Justice and the states initiated in 1998, accusing Microsoft of obstructing browser competition and perpetuating its Windows monopoly.

His group's members have not been obstructing fair competition, he said; rather, public expectations for local loop unbundling were simply too high.

The Justice Department, the Federal Trade Commission and state attorneys general all have the legal power to force mega-corporations to split up where there is a reasonable case that they are obstructing real competition, she said.

But while public opinion is unlikely to obstruct a takeover, competition hurdles could scupper the deal in its current incarnation.