While the middlemen inflate the retail price, the distributors say the government sets prices artificially low.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

China has been accused of keeping its currency,the yuan, artificially low to boost exports.

VOA: standard.2009.11.12

"The detainees were kept naked for weeks, months at a time - kept in very small cells, whose temperatures were kept artificially low, sometimes to the extent that the naked detainees, as one official said,seemed to turn blue,"

VOA: standard.2009.03.23