Sentence examples for restrain prices from inspiring English sources

Inflation is stable because there is less idle capacity to restrain prices.

This spring, the agency tried to restrain prices, only in California and only in times of emergency.

But the mere commitment of the government to take on the worst cases has helped calm the British insurance market and restrain prices.

As is the policy at many airports these days, the facilities promise to restrain prices for "captive travelers" to roughly the level of those in surrounding areas.

The rapid growth in United States oil production, coupled with sluggish demand in Europe and slowing growth in China and much of the developing world, is expected to restrain prices.

The bill that President Bush will sign today is a giant windfall for the drug companies, opening up a huge new market with virtually no effort to restrain prices.

Mr. Hébert emphasized that the plan was an effort to "restrain prices" through market incentives while Mr. Massey simply called the effort "price controls," an action that Republicans abhor.

Certainly refocusing government's attention on a NOPEC law might have helped enormously to restrain prices.

The merger is "pro-competitive", insists Murray Kessler, Lorillard's boss.Perhaps, but Lorillard was a feisty competitor, forcing its bigger rivals to restrain price increases.

There is a particular problem when state-owned utilities are privatised without there being sufficient competition or regulation to restrain price rises.

Proper regulation should be developed before state-owned utilities such as railways and electricity providers are sold off, to ensure sufficient competition to restrain price rises.