Sentence examples for shielded from competition from inspiring English sources

The biggest state-owned firms are often big only because they are shielded from competition.

Historically, post offices have been shielded from competition by having a monopoly of deliveries.

Shielded from competition by tariffs, subsidies and local-content rules, they have little reason to innovate.

For devout believers in China, ABC's 320m customers, in a sector largely shielded from competition, are reason enough to go ahead regardless of turbulent conditions.

Under the statutes, if a company voluntarily does pediatric studies of a new drug, the product may be shielded from competition for six additional months.

The prices of consumer goods have fallen by much more in America in recent years than in the euro area, where retailers are shielded from competition and have not passed on cost reductions.

It's also partly because health care is relatively shielded from international competition, since many medical services are difficult to offshore.

Advocates of protection often argue that new and growing industries, particularly in less-developed countries, need to be shielded from foreign competition.

Education and health care jobs are so attractive because unlike manufacturing jobs, which have steadily declined over the last 25 years, they are largely shielded from global competition.

The outcome of this week's hemispheric trade gathering in Miami suggests that both will continue to be shielded from full competition in a global market.

Central Asia's industry, geared towards supplying other parts of the Soviet Union, had been shielded from international competition, and poor Tajikistan and Kirgizstan had been heavily subsidised from Moscow, to the tune of $1 billion a year.