Sentence examples for restrained by competition from inspiring English sources

Some companies may want to raise prices and increase profits, but economists said that increases would be restrained by competition, low-price imports and expectations that there would not be much pent-up demand from consumers who have kept buying through the economic slump.

Nationwide, price increases were restrained by competition, the Fed said, an encouraging sign that inflation was under control.

That's not to say government actuaries shouldn't be able to cry foul on a proposed premium increase and protect consumers against gouging by health plans that are so dominant in a market, they're not restrained by competition.

However, we'd like to clarify this point: While our data do not prove that the growth Yaphigh hepatocytes is restrained by cell competition, we mention this as one of the possible mechanisms.

Nine states challenging Microsoft's proposed settlement of the federal government's four-year-old antitrust case suggested that Microsoft had not dropped efforts to squash competition and would not be restrained by the accord.

He was restrained by the police.

He was restrained by Coach Rudy Tomjanovich and Mario Elie.

"Pie is a mystery restrained by pastry.

Both players were restrained by teammates.

They were restrained by police and some were arrested.

He was restrained by police for more than two hours.