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Example sentences for "higher price"

  • But this is precisely the question in dispute: whether he will eventually deduct them from his rent, or be compensated by a higher price of produce.

  • Among old countries, those which are able to export food, are able only because their industry is in a very backward state, because capital, and hence population, have never increased sufficiently to make food rise to a higher price.

  • The gas, therefore, must be sold at a higher price, to make up for the deficiency on the coke.

  • While the Bourbon coffee bore a higher price in the European market, considerable quantities of coffee were sent from Java to that island, and from thence re-exported as Bourbon coffee.

  • Do you make that profit upon the goods made to your order, by charging a higher price to your customer in the south, or by paying a smaller rate to the women who knit for you?

  • You don't suppose they charge a higher price in consequence of the long credit they give?

  • But then there is credit on both sides; so that I suppose there need be no higher price on that account?

  • Don't you think you could have got a higher price than 35s.

  • Increasing demand for cotton in the South leads to higher price of cotton; higher price of cotton makes cotton-growers richer, and enables them to increase their demand for imported goods, for land, and for labor.

  • If John buys his cloth dearer, he also sells his corn at a higher price; and if Peter makes a loss on the purchase of his corn, he gains it back by the sale of his cloth.

  • We maintain that "it is best to buy from others what we ourselves can produce only at a higher price.

  • Very certainly they are not such in their personal transactions; very certainly each one of them will procure for himself by barter, what by direct production would be attainable only at a higher price.

  • Some Consequences of a Higher Price Level.

  • We have already seen that a decrease in supply, which is represented by a movement from SS' to ss' results in a higher price; and it is the obvious converse that an increase in supply will have the opposite effect.

  • Therefore it is a sin in trading, to buy at a low price and to sell at a higher price.

  • Objection 1: It would seem that it is not lawful, in trading, to sell a thing for a higher price than we paid for it.

  • Dei xi, 16) the price of things salable does not depend on their degree of nature, since at times a horse fetches a higher price than a slave; but it depends on their usefulness to man.

  • Indeed a long obligation, other things being equal, is commonly preferred to a short one, and bears a higher price.

  • We remark that a man grows richer in proportion to the return yielded by his exertions, that is to say, in proportion as he sells his commodity at a higher price.

  • If John buys his cloth dearer, he also sells his corn at a higher price; and if Peter loses on his purchase of corn, he retrieves his losses by the sale of his cloth.

  • He sells at a higher price in proportion to the rarity, to the scarcity, of the article he produces.

  • It appears that a higher price is obtainable for dark than for light-coloured cigars, the demand for the former being about three times as large as for the latter.

  • In the manufacture of porter there is a waste of malt which does not occur in brewing ale; and the consumer must, therefore, either pay a higher price for it or be content with a weaker liquor.

  • Give examples you have seen of a higher price of one thing causing an increasing use of another.

  • And profits would be higher because the capitalist would have more corn than before at the same time that it bore a higher price.

  • The purpose of the association is to prevent competition among its members and keep control of prices in its own hands by charging a higher price to outsiders than to members of the association.

  • All this would mean a greater cost of production of wheat and a higher price for it in the market.

  • The man who should fix a higher price on his portion of the supply would be passed by in favor of other sellers who were disposing of their final increments, and his business would quietly drift away from him.


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