Sentences with phrase «called predatory»

On 29 September 2004 the Danish competition authority decided that Post Danmark had abused its dominant position by (amongst others) targeting the three customers of FK with very low prices (so - called predatory pricing).

One reason to apply with a recommended bad credit mortgage lender, is that some subprime lenders practice what is called predatory lending.

It's called predatory pricing.

Even if Amazon engaged in so - called predatory pricing by selling below cost, the solution is to go to court or appeal to Congress, Lande said.

Michael holds a master's degree in literature from the University of Colorado at Boulder and a bachelor's from the University of Texas at Austin; he is also the author of a well - reviewed book on the history of wolves in the United States called Predatory Bureaucracy: The Extermination of Wolves and the Transformation of the West (University Press of Colorado, 2005).

Last year alone, so - called predatory publishers took in about $ 75 million and published nearly half a million articles, researchers report today online in BMC Medicine.

Last June, Bronx city Councilmember Ritchie Torres introduced a bill that would create a watch list for so - called predatory equity landlords, partially defining the practice as taking on more debt than the building's income can initially support.

Democratic Assemblyman Matthew Titone says his bill would end what he calls a predatory practice that preys on people who can not always afford a companion animal.

For those who call them predatory or monopolistic, I argue that there's nothing stopping B&N or iBooks from doing the same.

Don't call them predatory.

Call it their predatory instinct.

Not exact matches

Cooper brought up a passionate speech Michelle Obama gave on Thursday ripping Donald Trump for what the first lady called «sexually predatory behavior»: «She was saying that essentially any unwanted advance toward a woman — kissing a woman, touching a woman without consent — that is sexual assault; that's the definition.»

With perceived predatory pricing practices, including the so - called «denial of money» attack, so commonplace, it is no surprise that this aspect of cloud growth has become a meme and has even been jokingly referenced on the television show Silicon Valley.

The Western Australian government has called on its federal counterpart to beef up its Trade Practices Act (TPA) to help protect small business against predatory pricing by big business.

But Mnuchin extends that argument about transparency into something more like a rap sheet: take Beijing's money, he warns, and risk being trapped in a debilitating cycle of debt — something that has led to asset - stripping by Chinese practitioners of what the National Defense Strategy calls «predatory economics.»

«We call on people everywhere to join with us to insist on a world in which women of all kinds can pursue their dreams free from sexual assault, abuse and predatory behavior.

A Church that is not cercerned with BOTH personal predatory behavior and institualized socioeconomic injustices is not faithful to its calling.

Metcash chief executive Ian Morrice has called for a code of conduct for petrol retailers, saying «predatory» petrol pricing by the major supermarket chains should not be allowed to continue.

It's called a Citadel / Predatory government, and you make valid points.

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He condemned «predatory capitalism», with calls for limits to executive pay and controls on the excesses of the financial industry; under his leadership, he said, Labour would reform capitalism, building what he called «responsible capitalism».

At 10 a.m., community organizations release report highlighting lack of oversight of for - profit commercial bail bond industry in New York City and call on elected officials and regulators to take immediate action to rein in predatory and illegal practices, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

Making a Better Tomorrow is once again targeting Alex Diaz de la Portilla, including releasing a mailer that calls Senate District 40 voters to tell the former state senator they «don't need his predatory politics.»

Bronx City Councilman Ritchie Torres, who sponsored two of the bills, called them a «game changer» that would clamp down on «predatory operators, whom I consider the scum of the earth.»

Now, the robot's first findings are already helping scientists piece together more of this previously hidden under - ice food web, including more evidence of the under - ice algae, as well as tiny copepods, ctenophores (jellyfish), predatory marine worms called arrow worms, and abundant amounts of large floating slime balls, known to scientists as larvaceans.

This is the story of one of the winners, a small, shell - crushing predatory fish called Fouldenia, which first appears in the fossil record a mere 11 million years after an extinction that wiped out more than 90 percent of the planet's vertebrate species.

Thanks to these fossil finds, we now know that birds descend from a branch of medium - sized predatory dinosaurs, the so - called theropods.

Eons later, in a process called secondary endosymbiosis, predatory protozoa gulped down the green algae.

Ripples in the water made by throat sac expansion in calling túngara frogs signal their presence both to rivals and to predatory bats.

The petite 1.2 - metre - long Eoraptor followed a few years later; both were identified as very primitive two - legged predatory dinosaurs called theropods, a group which ultimately gave rise to Tyrannosaurus rex and modern birds.

Alter calls those terms «absurd and predatory,» but his group still tried, unsucessfully, to negotiate a lower - cost renewal.

And when they charged too much, it simply discounted prices to $ 9.99 — a level that in some cases meant taking a loss on each book sold, something critics have called «predatory pricing.»

Some people have called this phenomenon predatory pricing, devised to put the bulk of digital bookstores out of business.

I think predatory pricing is what the losers call it.

It probably depends on how much pain Amazon wants to inflict on other retailers and how much attention they're willing to call to themselves for predatory pricing.

Many have been called payday lenders or title loan companies predatory lenders, because their interest rates often exceed 100 % APR, and they charge a variety of fees to unsuspecting customers.

Sometimes called alternative education loans, they've been associated with predatory lenders and for - profit colleges that prey on borrowers» desire for higher education.

In particular, the federal government plans to crack down on what it calls «hidden fees» by ending extra fees for paper bills; expanding no - cost basic banking services, working with the provinces and territories to regulate predatory payday lenders and further close the U.S. - Canada price gap.

Dogs, like other animals that are predatory by nature, have a membrane near the back of their eye that is somewhat like a mirror, called the tapetum lucidum.

Avoid so - called sanctuaries that offer interactions with wild animals such as elephant - back safaris, and walks with predatory cats such as lions, cheetahs and leopards.

In a statement to press last night, Lee - a Hawaii State Representative and Chairman of the House Energy and Environmental Protection Committee - spoke out against Battlefront 2 specifically, and called out EA for being «predatory».

GameSpot reviewer Justin Haywald played through the game without needing to pay for a single loot box, calling the Market «less predatory and more like a cluelessly unnecessary addition.»

Hawaii State Representative Chris Lee is taking a stand against what he calls «the spread of predatory practices in online gaming.»

Sea cucumbers have a whole array of fancy defense mechanisms that keep many a predator at bay; think foul - tasting chemicals, fleshy protrusions, and the ability to «shoot a web of sticky strings called Cuvierian tubules out of their anuses as a deterrent to predatory crabs and mollusks»... I'd stay away too.

The planetary futurist Alex Steffen calls this tactic «predatory delay, the deliberate slowing of needed change to prolong a profitable but unsustainable status quo that will be paid by other people eventually.»

When Trump, in his June 1 Rose Garden Speech, withdrew from the Paris Accord, saying «I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris,» Moore was left with small change, calling it «a crime against humanity» and warning that «this admitted predator has now expanded his predatory acts to the entire planet.»

23 et seq.), to apply a more so - called effects - based - approach which consists mainly of a price / cost - test to appreciate whether commercial behavior of a dominant undertaking is abusive (not only for predatory pricing, but also for margin squeeze and rebates / discounts).

The calls are persistent and predatory, and quickly find their way to your family and friends.

For instance, consider how older women are labeled «cougars,» a term that evokes an almost predatory image.3 I know older guys are sometimes referred to as «cradle robbers,» but this term is not used nearly as often, and when a man calls another man a cradle robber, he usually smiles and gives him a pat on the back at the same time.

You can defeat so - called «hi - tech» predatory, manipulatory machinations by «do - gooder, in - house, do - gooding - for - same» Quizlings with a «low - tech» counter-attack... withholding of funds... now.