Meanings of keep artificially in English

YES:The tax take has been kept artificially low by an unsustainable boom.

The strict industry rules limited competition, and prices could be kept artificially high.

When cities buy farmland, they pay set rates that are kept artificially low.

That would ensure that prices would not be kept artificially low because of political pressure.

And the rental market is kept artificially stoked by this cynical refusal to reform the buying market.

The funds allege the price was kept artificially low but both Hitachi and Finmeccanica have deny any wrongdoing.

Investment funds have said the price paid by Hitachi to Finmeccanica was kept artificially low by overvaluing another asset involved in the deal.

The funds have complained the price paid by Hitachi to Finmeccanica was kept artificially low by overvaluing another asset involved in the deal.

Energy prices in Bulgaria, the poorest EU nation and other former communist countries in eastern Europe were subsidized and kept artificially low for decades.

This went hand in hand with monetary policy which both supported banks and kept artificially high the value of financial assets and real estate.

However, its bid on minorities faced opposition from investment funds that are among Ansaldo STS shareholders and argued the price had been kept artificially low.

But some funds complained that the price paid by Hitachi to Finmeccanica was kept artificially low by over valuing another asset involved in the deal.