Sentence examples for set to undercut from inspiring English sources

The discounters, with their inherently lower costs, seem set to undercut the department stores in offering chic clothes at low prices.Another factor favouring the discounters, reckons Kellogg's Professor Blattberg, is the trend towards more casual business wear.

Fares were set to undercut rival carriers, at less than £2,000 for the cheaper class and £3,000 for the top grade.

Also set to undercut prices: a strengthening dollar.

But Mr. Tanaka set out to undercut his rivals with deft automation, an investment in information technology, some creativity and an almost extreme devotion to cost-efficiency.

In his latest novel, he tells of four journalists who, horrified that a racist Republican will win the presidency, set out to undercut him in the one debate of the campaign.

At one moment, the series seems set to satisfy expectations, the next to undercut them, and the next to undercut the undercutting.

Missouri and Ohio, two other states troubled by the Affordable Care Act, have also moved to undercut the law and its insurance exchanges, set to open on Oct. 1.

For two years, the mystery has endured: who set out to undercut climate scientists by publishing more than 1,000 of their private e-mails on the Internet?

According to its sources Uber created fake Lyft accounts and used those to trick its rival's system into believing that prospective customers were seeking rides in various locations around a city — allowing it to see which Lyft drivers were nearby and what prices they were offering for various routes, presumably so it could set its own prices to undercut its rival and poach customers.

"All the U.K. businesses that have dreamed of digging out Burmese jade or removing oil and gas, or teak and ebony, or setting up trainer-making sweatshops to undercut those of Cambodia, need dream no more," said Peter Popham, a biographer of Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi.

The firm's star banker took the title of deputy chief executive and set out making fixes that threatened to undercut David-Weill's control.