How to Use price support in a Sentence

price support

noun

• With the demise of price supports in the 1990s, the U.S. mohair industry fell apart.
  — Lynn Brezosky, San Antonio Express-News, 9 Feb. 2018
• The loans, at 10 cents per pound, were above the average market price, and served as a form of price support to farmers.
  — Natasha Bach, Fortune, 12 Apr. 2018
• The first price supports to go were for soybeans and cotton on a trial basis in 2014.
  — Lucy Craymer, WSJ, 13 July 2017
• The analysis showed a pattern of bitcoin price support, Griffin said.
  — Matt Robinson and Matthew Leising, latimes.com, 13 June 2018
• Then, the same government responds to the farmers’ plight with a barrage of handouts, price supports, subsidized loans and debt-relief measures for them, which many other countries also do.
  — Krishna Pokharel, WSJ, 14 Jan. 2019
• Farmers and supporters rally in 1983 in Iowa, seeking price supports for crops and a moratorium on farm foreclosures.
  — Jacob Bunge, WSJ, 26 July 2018
• The Paygo law was meant to be painful: The cuts would target specific programs, including Medicare, price supports for farmers, a fund for crime victims and subsidies for affordable housing, Hoagland said.
  — Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2017
• With a broad range of authorities, the CCC could assist farmers today in a number of ways, including using a price support tactic similar to the one employed during the Depression.
  — Natasha Bach, Fortune, 12 Apr. 2018
• Yet going beyond the initial targets, and keeping prices supported, also serves a number of internal purposes for the kingdom.
  — Bloomberg.com, 19 Feb. 2018
• For more than 30 years, the federal government has guaranteed U.S. sugar beet and sugar cane producers a minimum price for their product through a system of price support loans, quotas and buy-backs.
  — Sabrina Eaton, cleveland.com, 11 Oct. 2017
• Yet despite taxpayer funding of these efforts, Azar speculated that vaccines might not be affordable to all and dismissed the idea of using price supports to ensure that poor people would have access to the vaccine.
  — Gavin Yamey, STAT, 5 Mar. 2020
• Much of that goes toward price supports for wheat and rice, but a growing share is going to land consolidation, mechanization, and research and development to improve productivity.
  — Lucy Craymer, WSJ, 13 July 2017
• Right-wing populist parties have largely benefited from new divisions in the electorate over housing, with people living in areas untouched by the boom in property prices supporting causes like Brexit in greater numbers.
  — Benjamin Mueller, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Feb. 2020
• The drug maker has argued that pricing supported further innovative research.
  — Ed Silverman, STAT, 7 Nov. 2019

Last Updated: 6 Aug 2024