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Postal services are a government monopoly.
Mary, this mischievous girl, came sticking her name at the beginning of this sentence, in order to not leave that monopoly to Tom, although it wasn't necessary at all.
Tom and Mary are playing Monopoly.
She's playing Monopoly.
He's playing Monopoly.
Mass immigration enabled the United States to make use of their enormous resources and smash the industrial monopoly of European countries at the end of the nineteenth century.
I haven't played Monopoly since I finished college.
It's a monopoly.
You don't have a monopoly on good taste.
Movie subtitles
By 1 506, the Portuguese had a near monopoly on shipping along the East African coast.
It'll be the largest individual monopoly in the world if we're smart.
He has a monopoly on the black market here.
A monopoly of some kind, isn't it?
An international monopoly.
We know you run the monopoly.
David, I want a monopoly on you.
It'll be a virtual monopoly for Pearce and Crump and their buses.
We're not asking for a monopoly, like you are.
Do you think you were born with a monopoly on the truth?
Today it's all monopoly.
Monopoly is the menace of free enterprise.
The monopoly of power is a menace to freedom.
Quinlan doesn't have a monopoly on hunches.
You've no monopoly!
You haven't got a monopoly on that.
The dead hand of monopoly. It's not like that at all, I assure you.
America is a rich and powerful country, but you have no monopoly on evil men.
I didn't. Well, wearing a uniform doesn't bestow an automatic monopoly on courage, Commander.
Stop getting prettier. You'll turn into a monopoly.
The Church's bell-ringing monopoly will come to an end!
He pretty near has a monopoly on the black market here.
I think so. A trust, a monopoly of some kind, isn't it?
Monopoly in what?
You're head of a tungsten monopoly.
Even our government is against monopoly.
Would you have us believe that Austria holds a monopoly on virtue?
I shouldn't imagine you have a monopoly.
And sometimes we play Monopoly. Monopoly.
What about your brother-in-law, the dirty Monopoly player?
News and current affairs
With a prize system, innovators are rewarded for new knowledge, but they do not retain a monopoly on its use.
That way, the power of competitive markets can ensure that, once a drug is developed, it is made available at the lowest possible price - not at an inflated monopoly price.
The banks do not have monopoly pricing power in the traditional sense, and their market share - at the national level - is lower than what would trigger an antitrust investigation in the non-financial sectors.
In a speech marking the state gas monopoly Gazprom's tenth anniversary in 2003, Putin stated his position explicitly, speaking of the company as one of the few strong geopolitical levers left to Russia after the Soviet collapse.
Liberalization attempts in energy and public utilities have faltered, perhaps also because the government pockets monopoly rents through dividends from public enterprises.
But financial markets--which do not have much to lose from unemployment, but are affected by inflation--are typically well represented. And yet financial markets hardly have a monopoly on technical competency.
The third pillar of the system is political monopoly.
In doing this he has not hesitated to use his semi-monopoly over television to exalt his government's alleged accomplishments.
This is because the Chinese Communist Party's monopoly on power can be justified only by continued rapid economic growth, without which workers and farmers will lose their jobs, and the urban middle classes their chance of increasing prosperity.
This was not a case of mere nationalism but of a class monopoly fearing competition from outside.
In the physical world, governments have a near-monopoly on large-scale use of force, the defender has an intimate knowledge of the terrain, and attacks end because of attrition or exhaustion.
Indeed, creating a regulatory agency is often a crucial component of successful telecommunications reforms, which typically start by privatizing the state-owned monopoly telecom company.
By exposing the inadequacy of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Iran, a signatory, has signaled to Israel that the regional order can no longer be based on Israel's nuclear monopoly as a non-NPT member.
When cheap paper and printing presses - the first true mass-communication technology - challenged this system, the Catholic Church and the monarchs defended the parchment-based monopoly.
That is because we have created a patent system that gives innovators a temporary monopoly over what they create, which encourages them to hoard their knowledge, lest they help a competitor.
Given the benefits of preventive care, the test has become highly controversial, because its manufacturer, Myriad Genetics, holds a genetic patent that gives it a monopoly - and huge profits - on all testing.
No wonder, then, that Lee was so much admired by autocrats everywhere who dream of combining their monopoly on power with the creation of great wealth.
And yet financial markets hardly have a monopoly on technical competency.
Google's position is so interesting and so powerful because the legal philosophy that challenges any ascendant position, even in an industry that seems naturally to produce monopoly, remains in place.
Some problems faced by Central Europe's right are similar to those the political right faces elsewhere in Europe, where social democratic parties expropriated many formerly liberal ideas to seize a monopoly of the political center.
Since the late 1990's, China's government has gradually introduced elements of competition and globalization, with the aim of overcoming the entrenched monopoly of China's traditional defense-industrial conglomerates.
Much of the income from GDP growth went to large state-owned enterprises, which strengthened their monopoly power.
In government (as well as in the private sector) a golden rule is that more competition and less monopoly is likely to be beneficial.
With the Chinese Communist Party increasingly dependent on the military to maintain its monopoly on power and ensure domestic order, senior military officers are overtly influencing foreign policy.
If he fails to do so, he will be deemed a failure, and the Chinese Communist Party's political monopoly may end sooner than anyone anticipates.
Indeed, political modernization faces massive opposition from the Chinese Communist Party, which has no interest in surrendering its monopoly of power.
Very close species may have similar behavioral systems and, in the case of our close predecessors, the shared features probably included many traits we have preferred to consider the monopoly of our species, including symbolic behavior.