Sentence examples for ruinous price from inspiring English sources

Many automakers have been engaging in ruinous price wars in an effort to draw buyers back into showrooms.

Last winter's reform of ruinous price subsidies was a hot potato that only he dared to touch.

Consumers started making more calls from cellphones, just as long-distance companies began a ruinous price war.

Eating While it is very possible to dine appallingly and for a ruinous price in Paris, the French capital remains foodie heaven.

For example, by putting up a relatively small amount of money, a farmer could buy a derivative known as a forward or futures contract that would guarantee a set price for crops and thereby guard against ruinous price swings between planting and harvest.

Collectively they control 90% of the U.S. market, and this cozy oligopoly hasn't succumbed to ruinous price wars yet.

Guarding against a return to the ruinous price-wage spirals of the 1970s was a constant preoccupation.

It was charming but everyone complained about its ruinous prices.

We will all be used to it by Saturday, but instinct suggests it is best to tread carefully on the opening day, particularly with two of the six favourites likely to start at potentially ruinous prices.

(A couple of years later, about a hundred children were killed by government forces while protesting their school uniforms, which their parents were forced to buy, at ruinous prices, from a company owned by one of the emperor's 17 wives).

Some economists believe that the light taxation of land in Japan contributed to its ruinous asset-price bubble in the 1980s.A property tax would by no means be easy to implement in China.