Sentence examples for set a market from inspiring English sources

Mr. Lamy said the bill would set a market entry barrier for several European telecommunications companies.

Rather, it is meant to help set a market price for the securities they hold.

Another example is the sadly discolored van Gogh "Sunflowers," which set a market record — forty million — in 1987, when sold to a Japanese insurance company.

But Polian didn't want to pursue Vinatieri merely to set a market price that Vinatieri could toss at the Patriots to match or improve upon.

If they get the IPO away at the figures suggested, it would set a market price at or around that level.

Sandy Alderson, the team's general manager, predicted this week that Reyes's situation was unlikely to be resolved quickly, and indicated that the Mets would allow other teams to set a market value on Reyes before wading into the process themselves.

During a visit earlier this month by members of the International Olympic Committee, the IOC's vice-president, Dick Pound, accused the Australians of being "nuts" to set a marketing target that was too high and of having a "dysfunctional relationship" with their sponsors.

And even though the effect is generally to depress the theater and keep audiences away, theater producers continue to use critics' quotes in newspaper ads, and wait to set a marketing strategy until the reviews come in.

On a slightly more cynical level, The Last of Us may have also set a marketing precedent.

Private investors will bid against each other, setting a market price.

This would have the salutary effect of setting a market price for this garbage, forcing the banks to mark their retained mortgages to market (so far they've marked down the dodgy securities).