| Does this make us unwittingly collusive in the perpetuation of wealth inequity? |
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| The avant-garde is to be understood neither as simply oppositional to dominant ideological structures nor as naively collusive with them. |
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| In annulling this decision the Court has made it difficult for the Commission to proceed against collusive practices. |
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| Roche's particular role as prime mover and main beneficiary of these collusive arrangements is to be noted. |
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| If so, this suggests a charge of collusive bidding, rather than simple insider dealing. |
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| Both Solvay and CFK denied that any collusive agreement or arrangement was made between them. |
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| In many countries, including Canada, these types of associations are suspect or even illegal as they can lead to collusive behaviour among firms. |
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| In addition the safeguard measures help to limit the risk that the exchange of information could spill over into collusive behaviour. |
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| In some ports, exclusivity rights, unregulated monopolies, collusive practices, and labour problems hamper competition and undermine efficiency. |
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| Collusion is prohibited by Article 81 of the EC Treaty, which means that firms cannot sign legally enforceable contracts to bind themselves to collusive understandings. |
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| The key issue with horizontal mergers is that they may allow market power to be wielded, either by single-firm monopolists, or by collusive oligopolies. |
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| Thus, Merck holds that the price achieved as a result of the collusive arrangements was barely above the price which would have been achieved if the arrangements had not existed. |
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| There is very limited transparency of prices of digital navigable maps and there are large and infrequent contracts, which make deviation from a potential collusive arrangement more likely. |
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| The minister, when he was in the House, pointed out that a number of investigations into this in the past revealed the absence of collusive behaviour. |
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| To the dedicated antitruster, the government has fostered a collusive ring under the protection of statute law. |
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| Unless their own money is at risk, those voters will surely see any rescue as a lifeline for the incompetent friends of collusive politicians and bureaucrats. But not all savings in Japan go into the banks. |
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| Three parties stated in their reply to the Statement of Objections that BPI had participated after November 2001 to a collusive arrangement concerning a tender. |
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| The collusive behaviour adopted by the lysine producers distorted the pattern of trade in this region through the effect on price levels and quantities. |
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| Similarly, there is no evidence of collusive links between official distributors in different Member States, whilst some provisions might also be different according to the Member State or present in some Member States only. |
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| Strong or well organised distributors may be able to force or convince one or more suppliers to fix their resale price above the competitive level and thereby help them to reach or stabilise a collusive equilibrium. |
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| Competition policy should be used to remove barriers to market access, particularly for smaller firms, combat collusive behaviour and ensure that the benefits of competition reach the consumer. |
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| Experimental results suggested that those approaches successfully identified all primary collusive clique scenarios in all selected datasets and thus showed the effectiveness and stableness of the novel application. |
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| Kyowa holds that, during the period from ADM's 1991 entry into the lysine market until shortly after late June 1992, collusive efforts plainly had little or no effect on the market, because prices were in constant decline. |
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| And Mr Arrington has yet to provide hard evidence of collusive behaviour. |
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| Paradoxically, the Oxford Movement was also criticised for being both secretive and collusive. |
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| Illicit trade was carried on by collusive captures arranged between American traders and British officers. |
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| That is bad enough: it leads to an utterly improper relationship between the civil servants and the very people who, in a system less collusive and secretive than Japan's, they would be monitoring. |
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| In the post-Soviet time, the economy fell into the hands of robber barons, and patronisation by politicians and government officials in an essentially collusive framework. |
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| As with collusive conduct, market shares are determined with reference to the particular market in which the company and product in question is sold. |
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| Arab traders had reportedly used similar collusive tactics to drive out Chinese merchants earlier in the 15th century from various ports on the Malabar Coast. |
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| Collusive labor makes it easier for employers to collude to extract maximum rents from customers. |
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