Sentences with phrase «using predatory»

On the other side of that coin there's a lovely sense of smug satisfaction to be gained from playing as Batman or Robin and taking down human players using your predatory tactics and selection of gadgets.

most companies don't get accused by senior government officials of using predatory tactics to lure children into online gambling.

Outdoor cats may receive more mental and physical stimulation from climbing trees, exploring their environment, and using their predatory...

Outdoor cats may receive more mental and physical stimulation from climbing trees, exploring their environment, and using their predatory instincts to hunt for food.

Student credit cards get a lot of bad press for charging high interest rates and for using predatory lending practices.

«China is a strategic competitor using predatory economics to intimidate its neighbors while militarizing features in the South China Sea,» the document reads.

Amazon has used predatory pricing as part of a range of strategies (lock - in) to garner a large market, but there's nothing inherently wrong with that.

In fact, they use predatory practices that harm a borrower in the long run.»

Because of the lack of consumer awareness about ESCOs and energy choice, some ESCOs have used predatory tactics to get customers on plans that are much more expensive than Con Ed's rates.

Not exact matches

This Act prohibited price discrimination by retailers among producers and by producers among retailers.63 Its aim was to prevent conglomerates and large companies from using their buyer power to extract crippling discounts from smaller entities, and to keep large manufacturers and retailers from teaming up against rivals.64 Like laws banning predatory pricing, the prohibition against price discrimination effectively curbed the power of size.

Specifically, Defendants made false and / or misleading statements and / or failed to disclose that: (i) the Company was engaged in predatory lending practices that saddled subprime borrowers and / or those with poor or limited credit histories with high - interest rate debt that they could not repay; (ii) many of the Company's customers were using Qudian - provided loans to repay their existing loans, thereby inflating the Company's revenues and active borrower numbers and increasing the likelihood of defaults; (iii) the Company was providing online loans to college students despite a governmental ban on the practice; (iv) the Company was engaged overly aggressive and improper collection practices; (v) the Company had understated the number of its non-performing loans in the Registration Statement and Prospectus; (vi) because of the Company's improper lending, underwriting and collection practices it was subject to a heightened risk of adverse actions by Chinese regulators; (vii) the Company's largest sales platform and strategic partner, Alipay, and Ant Financial, could unilaterally cap the APR for loans provided by Qudian; (viii) the Company had failed to implement necessary safeguards to protect customer data; (ix) data for nearly one million Company customers had been leaked for sale to the black market, including names, addresses, phone numbers, loan information, accounts and, in some cases, passwords to CHIS, the state - backed higher - education qualification verification institution in China, subjecting the Company to undisclosed risks of penalties and financial and reputational harm; and (x) as a result of the foregoing, Qudian's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.

Predatory finance has concentrated wealth and used it to buy control of governments and their regulatory agencies.

However, some predatory lenders will use it as an opportunity to make a buck.

We think the customizations we've implemented, including using price limits and minimum fill quantities, as well as accessing dark pools and block trading venues, have helped reduce our exposure to predatory HFT strategies.

To be shocked that predatory people would seek to use the authority of God to destroy is to assume that somehow Jesus» warnings do not apply to us.

Yeah, and then turned it into a predatory cult because he was a sociopath, rather than use that information for good.

Some of the transcripts are now available from the Senate's inquiry into the «impacts of supermarket price decisions on the dairy industry» (naturally Frank Zumbo used the opportunity to once again rave about the Birdsville amendment on predatory pricing - he doesn't fail to mention he drafted it, amongst other things (such as a purported need for price discrimination laws and proposing an office of the Australian small business and farming commissioner)-RRB-.

Changes to competition laws (milk wars discussion and recommendations relating to MMP (introduce effects test), predatory pricing (recommend Minister direct ACCC to investigate Coles for breach of s 46 relating to predatory pricing), unconscionable conduct (suggest it be defined), statutory duty of good faith, unfair contract terms (seeks «recognition of the competitive disadvantage faced by farmers» and extension of unfair contract terms protection to small business), collective bargaining (seeks relaxation of public interest test for boycott approvals in agriculture markets, increase «ability for peak bodies to commence and progress collective bargaining and boycott applications» on behalf of members - and further dairy specific recommendations, ACCC divestiture power (wants ACCC to have similar divestiture powers to Comp Commission in UK - «simpler process of divestiture», ACCC monitoring powers (wants Minister to direct ACCC to use price monitoring powers to «monitor prices, costs and profits relating to the supply of drinking milk») and mandatory code of conduct (wants mandatory code and «Ombudsman with teeth to ensure compliance»)-RRB-.

Last week, McDonald's made national headlines when it announced it had allegedly found a work - around to a San Francisco law designed to curb the predatory practice of using toys to lure kids into a lifetime of fast food.

sign up» to all the ideas he has «appropriated» (really, like that's not going to get old very quickly) like a true predatory, and consummate, PR lobbyist... I'm just surprised he hasn't paid for his campaign using a PFI deal!

«We encourage you to investigate whether these and other predatory practices are more widespread than previously reported, whether there is a growing trend of property owners using our judicial system to intimidate or extract money or other concessions from tenants, and whether these practices are out of line with the norms and standards of our justice system and tenants» right to due process.»

In April 2015 the IDC released an investigative report, «Road to Credit Danger: Predatory Subprime Auto Lending in New York,» that examined the deceptive practices used by car dealers to take advantage of consumers.

«This will, therefore, continue to be used to narrow the curriculum, reducing opportunities for children and young people, and to force schools into being taken over by predatory private providers.

At 10 a.m., NYC Department of Consumer Affairs Commissioner Lorelei Salas and Councilman Rafael Espinal, Jr. host a public hearing on predatory lending in the used car industry, CUNY School of Law, 2 Court Square, 3rd floor, community room 3/115 -116, Queens.

In April, the IDC released an investigative report, «Road to Credit Danger: Predatory Subprime Auto Lending in New York,» which highlighted numerous predatory tactics being practiced by used car dealerships throughout New YPredatory Subprime Auto Lending in New York,» which highlighted numerous predatory tactics being practiced by used car dealerships throughout New Ypredatory tactics being practiced by used car dealerships throughout New York City.

Her lawsuit states that Cater previously was a victim of domestic abuse and that Hoyt used Cater's vulnerability to «lure» her into a «predatory and unlawful game in which Defendant Hoyt sought to control every aspect of the plaintiff's life.»

The eyes treated with predatory bacteria were indistinguishable from eyes treated with a saline solution, used as the control treatment.

Scientists have used state - of - the - art imaging techniques to examine the cracks, fractures and breaks in the bones of a 150 million - year - old predatory dinosaur.

He found 40 - year - old scientific papers suggesting that the velociraptor — a swift predatory dinosaur — used a similar body - stabilizing trick.

Modified cameras that are sensitive to ultraviolet light were used to photograph the ladybirds, allowing the researchers to use special modelling and image analysis techniques to analyse how each species would appear to predatory birds, which have very different color vision to humans.

Predatory mites have been used as biological control agents for years.

Research compiled in the book examines how predatory mites can be used to control other plant - eating mites and other harmful organisms such as stable flies, mushrooms flies and some soil pests, said Daniel Carrillo, a UF / IFAS assistant professor in entomology.

The ground cuckoo makes a noise very similar to that used by pig - like peccaries to warn off predatory cats, which could be evidence of acoustic mimicry

The researchers used stuffed dummies of two predatory types in order to provoke a reaction from the birds.

American farmers have planted 20 million acres of genetically modified corn, engineered to repel predatory insects without using noxious chemicals.

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.

The small crustaceans, which dine on parasites that infest large, predatory fish, use the dance to attract customers.

By agreeing to these more stringent guidelines, the authors write, publishers and journals would have the chance to legitimize and advertise the relative quality of their peer review process in an age when predatory journals, which falsely claim to use peer review, continue to proliferate.

Researchers grew three flower species — borage (pictured above), common comfrey, and cornflower — that farmers use to attract predatory and parasitic insects, including wasps, flies, lady beetles, and lacewings.

talon The curved toenail - like claw on the foot of a bird, lizard or other predatory animal that uses these claws to snag prey and tear into its tissues.

Using similar techniques, another team of researchers studied how one type of large predatory dinosaur — Allosaurus — might have fed.

Similar protective associations have also been documented in moose in living in Yellowstone, that give birth near roads to keep predatory traffic - averse brown bears away from their offspring, and mountain nyala in Ethiopia that use human shields against their spotted hyena predators.

Researchers used a method that allowed them to statistically quantify variation in the shape of predatory bird skulls and see how this shape variation compared with size, what the birds ate and how they are related to each other.

Told in riveting detail by the women who were able to escape Sowell's deadly clutches, «Unseen» draws viewers into a world where marginalized women, plagued by drug use, shunned by society and dismissed by the police, became easy prey for a predatory monster.

The producer Harvey Weinstein used to dominate Oscar campaigning but the Academy expelled him last October amid allegations of serial predatory behaviour, including rape.

It would compromise their trust in me, as well as my standing in the survivor community if I used my position in a predatory way to hit people up in that manner.

Predatory pricing could, in turn, help Amazon buttress its other critical barrier to entry into the e-book marketplace: its use of a proprietary e-book format, rather than the industry - standard epub format.

Let me also caution you that that there are a lot of «predatory» or «rip - off» companies operating within the realm of self - publishing that are known for using illegal and / or unethical business practices.

This is just another of a long list of predatory practices they're using.

They cleaned up the predatory practices, the massive overcharging, and the questionable marketing, and turned it into Createspace — a legitimate POD company used by LOTS of self - publishers.