knock down price

But Justice Sonia Sotomayor was also skeptical that the law restricted speech, and Justice Stephen G. Breyer said he was concerned about using the First Amendment to knock down price regulations.

Rosneft's listing was controversial because it acquired many of its assets from Yukos, the former Russian oil giant which jailed oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky had run, for a knock down price in 2004.

Aside from his wage – which is around £250,000 a year before bonuses and share options are added – Diamond remains perhaps best known for pushing through Barclays' controversial acquisition of the brokerage arm of the US bank Lehman Brothers after its collapse in 2008 for the relative knock down price of $1.75bn.