Many economists consider the move a gimmick that could artificially lower the price of onions, discouraging farmers from planting more of the crop next season.

Artificially lowering the price of a gallon would encourage people to consume more gasoline, thus risking further shortages, at precisely the moment the market is telling them to use less.

The export restraints can artificially increase world prices for these raw material inputs while artificially lowering input prices for Chinese producers.

They artificially lowered the beltline - essentially, the baseline of the car's windows - by putting shiny black trim under the greenhouse.

This omission of liabilities artificially lowers the debt-to-income ratio, which is a key underwriting criterion used to determine eligibility for most mortgage loans.

The players oppose a cap because they believe it would artificially lower salaries, undermine free agency and weaken competitive balance.

The researchers artificially lowered the bond strength in the simulation.

Many insurance companies have raised their excess charges so they can artificially lower their premiums and so propel their policy to the top of these "best buy" tables.

Producers have complained for years that pipeline companies regularly overstate their demand, causing too much gas to reach the market and artificially lowering prices.

Artificially lowering the price of a gallon would encourage people to consume more gasoline, thereby risking even greater scarcity, just when the market is telling them to use less.

"The standard offer is such a great deal because it's artificially low."

The price of food in this country is kept artificially low by government subsidies.

A prosecutor said that the company had been sold at an artificially low price.

At the same time, some districts are under pressure to report artificially low figures, for political reasons.

For years, the Government kept food prices artificially low and accepted shortages.

When smaller stocks are leading the market, as they have in recent years, the challenge is artificially low.

The per capita income for the city was $15,531, however this figure may be artificially low due to the large student population.

The number of blacks in federal employment was kept artificially low for decades.

Lower rates in other countries may be due to an artificially low recognition of the diagnosis.

Food prices are artificially low because the Government has ordered producers not to raise them.