antitrustin a sentence
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Without antitrust law, it would be easier for companies to agree to charge higher prices.
antitrust = related to laws intended to promote free competition in the market place
- She claims the administration is not adequately enforcing antitrust laws.
- It was a softball, but I'd gotten so used to talking about my budding interest in antitrust litigation (an interest that was at least a little fabricated) that I was laughably unprepared.† (source)
- Mae didn't know enough about antitrust laws to have an off-the-cuff opinion.† (source)
- We allege criminal misconduct; we shout about antitrust; we sue for ancient and dubious liabilities.† (source)
- In 1947, GM and a number of its allies in the scheme were indicted on federal antitrust charges.† (source)
- "The information, please," insisted Dr. Randolph Gates of Harvard, expert in antitrust law and highly paid consultant to numerous industries.† (source)
- On the contrary, it opposed using antitrust laws to stop the giant meatpackers.† (source)
- The antitrust laws outlawing such behavior need to be vigorously enforced.† (source)
- We are here today to insist that the Senate's Antitrust Task Force begin an investigation into whether or not the Circle acts as a monopoly.† (source)
- The consensus was that this senator was known for her occasionally outside-the-mainstream positions—she had been against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan—and thus she would not get much traction with this antitrust crusade.† (source)
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- Gates is a highly paid consultant to a law firm representing a megadefense contractor under antitrust scrutiny.† (source)
- After all, he was Bryce Ogilvie, the Bryce Ogilvie, perhaps the most successful corporate attorney in New York, and arguably second only to Boston's Randolph Gates in the fast track of corporate and antitrust law.† (source)
- Bryce Ogilvie, of the law firm Ogilvie, Spofford, Crawford and Cohen, was dictating a highly complex reply to the Justice Department's antitrust division when his very private telephone line rang; it rang only at his desk.† (source)
- A decade later, the Reagan administration allowed these firms to merge and combine without fear of antitrust enforcement.† (source)
- One of his grandfathers headed a Texas cattleman's association during the early 1900s and led the fight against the Beef Trust, testifying before Congress and calling for strict enforcement of the antitrust laws.† (source)
- Afraid that an antitrust trial might end with an unfavorable verdict, the five meatpacking companies signed a consent decree in 1920 that forced them to sell off their stockyards, retail meat stores, railway interests, and livestock journals.† (source)
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