Sentences with phrase «of predatory drive»

Some small dogs may also attack legs out of predatory drive just because it is fun, in the same way other dogs chase balls, bikes, joggers and squirrels!

Not exact matches

«Predatory subprime auto lending takes advantage of vulnerable New Yorkers in every corner of our state and often drives people with bad credit further into debt.

The predatory worms have already helped drive several species of land snails to extinction in parts of the Pacific Islands.

NICOTINE DEFENSE Tobacco hornworm caterpillars use some of the nicotine in their food to produce a smoker's breath strong enough to drive away predatory wolf spiders.

December 31, 2010 • Microfinance companies have been accused of predatory lending and collection practices so harsh that they drove some borrowers to suicide.

From Wikipedia: «Predatory pricing (also undercutting) is a pricing strategy where a product or service is set at a very low price, intending to drive competitors out of the market, or create barriers to entry for potential new competitors.»

Once a large company has spent its capital to fund predatory pricing and drive its competitors out of business, there's no reason to keep selling for cheap.

And publishers would have no choice but to agree because every other competitor would also have been driven out of the market by Amazon's predatory pricing?

If it is, in fact, trying to drive consumer prices down (and accept short - term losses) in order to be the only (or major) supplier of books to consumers and / or reseller of books from publishers, this can be viewed as predatory pricing — perhaps good for the consumer in the very short run, but less so in the long run, since there are significant fixed costs to establishing a similar e - book / bricks & mortar presence in the market, particularly in the light of Amazon's potential willingness to drop prices enough to make business untenable for the new entrant.

Penguin's filing (pdf) takes a host of shots at Amazon, which it repeatedly refers to as a monopoly that drove the retail price of some ebooks to $ 9.99 through «predatory, below - cost pricing practices... apparently designed to exclude competition and control the pricing of ebooks».

The accusations in the lawsuits include purposely misleading borrowers toward short - term forbearance or deferment instead of the more generous income - driven repayment plans, not keeping borrowers informed of critical income - driven repayment plan re-enrollment deadlines, and handing out subprime, predatory loans to students at schools with a less than 50 percent graduation rate.

Many senior cats retain their a built - in predatory drive and still enjoy hiding in boxes or chasing a wad of paper on the floor.

Because of their predatory nature, cats have a very low thirst drive.

Leather leashes are attractive to chew on for dogs because of their texture and the fact that they have a smell (of cowhide) that may trigger predatory drive.

Instead of always feeding it out of a bowl, allowing your dog to engage in these productive, challenging and enjoyable activities taps into your dog's natural predatory drive — making mealtime fun.»

These dogs have strong predatory drive, and if not given a job, may choose to find their own source of entertainment.

And by comparing the dog to the wolf, scientists hope to gain insight into the genetics of aggression, even if they never completely understand what drives predatory behavior.

In this case, an appropriate intervention would be to provide the cat with a variety of toys to redirect the predatory behavior, and scheduled play sessions to dissipate the cat's predatory play drive.

But beyond the miniscule amount of fair trade and organic coffees offered in those ubiquitous stores (the mermaid doesn't have a single blend that's both fair trade AND organic), Starbucks has also been charged with unfair and predatory business practices that drives out local businesses, as well as union - busting.

Steps have also been taken to enhance the reliability of mortgage insurers, generally support industry standards for loan data transparency, and drive fraud and predatory loan products out of the system.