Example sentences of "dominant position in the " in BNC.

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1 Intel 's Grove has repeatedly declared his determination to defend his company 's dominant position in the PC chip market by every available method .
2 The Commission is vigilant in investigating , and severely punishes ‘ naked horizontal cartels ’ such as price fixing and market sharing and the abuse by groups with a dominant position in the market in any substantial area of the Community ( Article 86 ) .
3 In that case Engineering and Chemicals Supplies Limited ( ECS ) , a small producer of organic peroxides , alleged that the UK subsidiary of Akzo , a large Dutch multinational company , had abused its dominant position in the relevant market by implementing a policy of selective and below cost price-cutting designed to damage ECS 's business and to exclude it as a competitor from the specialised sub-market in the flour additives sector in the UK and the Republic of Ireland .
4 In Continental Can , the Court ruled that a company which already held a dominant position in the Common Market could be treated as exploiting it abusively so as to infringe Article 86 , if it strengthened its dominance by taking over a competitor .
5 The Commission 's decision that the merger would create or strengthen a dominant position in the common market caused considerable controversy and was based on the following reasoning :
6 In the Continental Can decision in 1973 the European Court held that a company which already held a dominant position in the Common Market or a substantial part of it could be treated as exploiting it abusively so as to infringe Article 86 , if it moved significantly towards monopoly by taking over a competitor .
7 It is a nonsense to inhibit that sort of synergy on the basis that together the merged units have a logically dominant position in the relatively small British market .
8 There is undoubtedly considerable choice provided by airlines on many routes ( especially inter-continental routes ) , but BA 's already dominant position in the domestic market would be reinforced by a merger with British Caledonian ( refer to Table 2.3 ) .
9 He said that Microsoft would like to have the dominant position in the industry that IBM had a few years ago ‘ but I do n't think that will happen ’ .
10 Fleet Street 's last hereditary newspaper baron , Viscount Rothermere , has carved a dominant position in the middle market of the British press with the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday .
11 The most straightforward example is where a firm has a dominant position in the UK national market , but argues before the competition authorities that the relevant market definition is not national , but , for example , the whole EC .
12 With mathematics and the natural sciences occupying such a dominant position in the culture of modern society , other forms of thought are obliged to jockey for position somewhere behind .
13 After the restrictions on the export of machinery were abolished in 1843 the firm achieved a dominant position in the world market , helped by the outstanding success of its imaginative displays at the Great Exhibition of 1851 .
14 The ruling Baath Party maintained its dominant position in the Assembly , although its proportion of seats fell from 66 per cent in 1986 to 54 per cent .
15 Although the new law would require Berlusconi to dispose of his controlling interest in the daily newspaper Il Giornale , its provisions were significantly less stringent than originally proposed , and it was criticized as allowing Berlusconi 's dominant position in the Italian media to remain largely unchecked .
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