Sentence examples for shifting price from inspiring English sources

IN ASIA kingdoms are said to rise and fall with the shifting price of rice.

Basing depreciation on historical cost rather than on probable replacement cost and on arbitrary rules rather than on actual use has been practiced to establish definite tax liability and to standardize audits of accounts; in times of shifting price levels, however, such bases for measuring depreciation have proved especially imperfect.

While Target did not appear to shift prices nearly as frequently as Walmart and Amazon, it offered specials that spurred competitors into action.

But it will take a lot of concrete to shift prices, since, at present, new construction represents only around 1% of the total housing stock.The home counties will not like it.

"Demand-based pricing not only helps maximize ticket revenues, but also provides a tool to shift price-conscious consumers to less-busy days," said Michael Erstad, senior consumer analyst at New York-based ITG INew York-basedarch.

Netflix has increased the price of its most popular plan, shifting the price up by 50p per month for new subscribers.

The growth of financial derivatives (complicated bets about the future movements of prices) means that a well-placed trader can make a huge amount of money, almost invisibly, by shifting the price slightly.

The reduction or load shifting compensation price is determined by the system operators or markets.

This season, for instance, you can buy a Chanel backpack for the perception-shifting price of £2,245.

Water is a notoriously slippery commodity in contemporary African cities, prone to governance shifts, price fluctuations, and unequal and intermittent accessibility.

They are known to diversify both through host plant shifts (Price 2005) and through ecological partitioning of a single plant (Joy and Crespi 2007; Stireman et al. 2008).