Example sentences for: discounting

How can you use “discounting” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The Indian press has generally advised against any escalation of the war, and the Times of India ran an editorial Wednesday discounting a much-reported remark by the Pakistani foreign minister that "we will not hesitate to use any weapon in our arsenal to defend our territorial integrity."

  • We adopted a 3 percent discount rate for our Base analysis in this case to reflect reliance on a "social rate of time preference" discounting concept.

  • Any or all of those assumptions may be wrong, of course, but in pointing to the discounting process in particular Greenspan did something important, which was get away from the simple idea of "irrationality" and move toward a more rigorous analysis of what's been happening.

  • Following up its report yesterday on a federal investigation of MTV's possible restraint of trade, the WSJ reports that major music companies, including Sony and Time Warner, have talked with federal antitrust officials about settling allegations that they have illegally discouraged retailers from discounting CDs.

  • In "A Brief History of Taxes," the chart she runs with her diatribe against supply-side economics is worthless, as even Paul Krugman would advise, because it accounts for neither the efficiency of the market in discounting changes in tax law throughout the legislative process, nor the volatility of monetary policy during the last 30 years of a floating dollar.


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