How to Use common market in a Sentence

common market

noun
  • If Brexit goes through, Britain will not be a member of the common market or the customs union.
    — William A. Galston, WSJ, 25 July 2017
  • Europe is always more than the common market, more than the European Union.
    — Fox News, 1 Jan. 2021
  • Mercosur is widely seen as falling far short of its aims to catalyze a common market in South America.
    — Peter S. Goodman, New York Times, 14 July 2023
  • The European Union began as a common market that slowly expanded in size.
    — Damon Linker, The Week, 4 Mar. 2022
  • Goods and people could travel freely within the EU’s common market, obviating the need for a border anyway.
    — Joseph C. Sternberg, WSJ, 19 May 2022
  • Europe, the world’s largest common market, has been flexing its regulatory muscle over US tech giants in recent years.
    — Scott Nover, Quartz, 2 Dec. 2021
  • Kenyatta quashed concerns that a bilateral free trade deal would undermine a new pan-African free trade agreement aimed at creating the world’s largest common market.
    — Fox News, 6 Feb. 2020
  • As a result, Europe must be more present and react swifter on the global stage, while increasing its competitiveness and strengthening the common market.
    — Arne Delfs, Bloomberg.com, 22 Mar. 2020
  • Their aim was to weld the French and German economies so closely together as to make war impossible, for example by creating a common market in coal and steel.
    — The Economist, 12 Sep. 2019
  • With Britain operating under European common market rules, trucks usually clear the port of Dover in around eight minutes.
    — Stephen Castle, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Aug. 2020
  • The country hasn’t been able to benefit from migration flows to offset a tight labor market, unlike in the European Union’s common market.
    — Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 4 May 2024
  • If a wealthy member state can throw billions of euros at an industry while a poorer one has to scrape by and look on jealously, the concept of the EU’s common market is under threat.
    — Raf Casertand and Samuel Petrequin, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Oct. 2022
  • Belatedly, Macmillan pushed to join that group, a common market and customs union, to give a boost to an economy that was lagging behind the rest of western Europe.
    — Lawrence D. Freedman, Foreign Affairs, 13 Apr. 2020
  • In the 1950s the Germans got the common market in exchange for the common agricultural policy.
    — The Economist, 24 May 2018
  • My long-term vision is to establish a common market of democracies because the world’s democracies represent about 60 percent of the global economy.
    — Yasmeen Serhan, The Atlantic, 18 July 2022
  • Europe instituted the exchange-rate mechanism (ERM) as an initial step towards a common market on the continent.
    — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 20 Aug. 2020
  • Many Britons voted for Brexit because control over immigration and their laws mattered more to them than the pecuniary advantages of the European common market.
    — Greg Ip, WSJ, 25 Aug. 2017
  • Kenyatta rejected concerns that a free trade deal with the United States would undermine a new continental free trade agreement in Africa aimed at creating the world’s largest common market.
    — Tom Odula, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Feb. 2020
  • Analysts say that such electoral calculations coupled with the grain issue – which portends a longer-term conflict if and when Ukraine joins the European common market – set the stage for the dispute with Kyiv.
    — Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Global economies have taken significant steps toward forging alliances that spread common market values and industrial leadership, but there is more work to be done in terms of international collaboration.
    — Sanjay Brahmawar, Fortune, 28 Dec. 2021
  • What’s more, except for last month, Value has also underperformed the S&P 500 index, the most common market benchmark, during all these periods.
    — Washington Post, 13 Nov. 2020
  • At first, the Geneva neoliberals were divided over the Treaty of Rome, which established Europe’s common market in 1957.
    — Stephen Wertheim, Foreign Affairs, 16 Apr. 2019
  • Once planted, this idea grew into what is the European Union today, in which German economic might is managed through a common market, with common rules and a common currency set by a common institution.
    — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 4 Apr. 2022
  • Brexit suggested an orderly and well-managed—but less decisive—exit, with agreements in place to smooth the process of disentangling the UK from more than 40 years of membership of the European common market and community.
    — Cassie Werber, Quartz, 29 Oct. 2019
  • Poorer European states say that Berlin has put their economies at a disadvantage by distorting the continent’s common market with a relief package, worth €200 billion, to help Germany weather soaring energy and inflation prices.
    — Erika Solomon, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2022

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