Sentence examples for punitive price from inspiring English sources

His wife understood from the start both the scale of her husband's ambition and the punitive price to be paid in human terms.

The big three plus Southwest now control ninety percent of domestic skies and they now reap rewards of punitive pricing powers reflective of an industry oligopoly.

And Mr Sorkin seems ready to swallow this story.It seems entirely plausible that Ben Bernanke wanted and encouraged a punitive sale price.

Despite the $145 billion Florida punitive damage judgment against the tobacco industry, investors are moving into the sector, lured by low price/earnings multiples and hefty dividend yields.

The same unsentimentality applies to fare dodging, now that private railway companies have created punitive and baffling pricing systems.

With North Korea, it seemed as though whenever tensions rose surrounding their nuclear threats and the United States' economically punitive response, bitcoin prices slid.

Mr Chávez's price controls, punitive regulation and threats of expropriation have depressed private investment.

Europe also needs to rethink its demands for punitive austerity as the price for bailout loans.

The US court's ruling against the big five publishers in the English-speaking world and in favour of Amazon was predicated on this: their desperate attempt to resist Amazon's imposition of punitive discounting constituted a price cartel.

Kingfisher soon had difficulties paying for fuel, particularly as costs were inflated by surging oil prices and punitive government levies.

But profitability has proven elusive for most in the industry, thanks to dwindling funding, rising fuel prices and punitive taxes that add to airline costs.