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Low prices are one of the fruits of competition: penalising business giants for price cuts would be perverse.

This was also amplified recently by the move towards a total decoupling subsidy system, which is penalising the European industry.

This cycle of dependency ensures that the SOEs remain formidable competitors overseas, while penalising the domestic, non-state sector.

Will central banks treat high commodity prices as a blip, and leave real interest rates low, penalising savers?

This involves strengthening the border and penalising employers who employ illegals.

The firm will continue to lobby lawmakers to pass laws penalising countries that defy American court judgments.

Saudi Arabia says it could suffer from any global pact that curbs oil demand by penalising carbon emissions.

To do so he has dusted off a decree, penalising misleading advertising, approved by a military dictatorship in 1983.

The changes to the electoral system have also had the effect of penalising third parties.

In 2004, he brought in a new criminal law, penalising anyone who tried to bring in outside music.

to make fresh provision penalising the fraudulent reception of transmissions;