It's also used in things like McDonald's Monopoly, where the game is not the Monopoly game you're playing, but the sort of cottage industries that form to try and find Boardwalk, right.

Today we can say that art in Latin America is no longer a monopoly of elites and that it has become a social right, a right for all the people.

Breaking the Neoclassical Monopoly in Economics

a monopoly over the use of legitimate force

The armed forces implement the state monopoly on violence.

Monopoly is a popular game for families to play.

No one could maintain a monopoly in this area.

It's to split the functions of a monopoly line ministry up into three.

Such a state monopoly on violence, first of all, serves as a reassurance.

Having a virtual monopoly on supply, Russia decided that it could dictate prices. But Ukraine has a virtual monopoly on delivery, so Russia blinked in this standoff as soon as gas supplies to Western Europe dropped.

Religion doesn't have a monopoly on that, but there are plenty of religious kooks.

In other words, a state monopoly that has the use of violence well under control.

And no side of the political spectrum has a monopoly on either of those qualities.

You had a monopoly supplier. On the left, you have Rupert Murdoch, or the BBC.

As a result, Microsoft cannot extract anything close to its full monopoly rents unless it sells upgrades. After all, even though Microsoft has a monopoly of primary sales of its software, copies sold in 2007 compete with those sold in 2006.

Rifo urged Americans to watch Videocracy, a documentary which explores Berlusconi's monopoly over the Italian media.

One way to combat mercenarism was for Governments to retain the monopoly of public security functions.

We do not claim a monopoly of wisdom in the field of disarmament, nuclear or otherwise.

It is now ceding the commanding heights of Chinese politics to autonomous representatives of social forces that it cannot control. The CCP s monopoly of public moral authority is long gone, and now its monopoly of political power is at risk as well.

This could only be rational if the seller can hope to establish a monopoly position and extract large profits in the future. But few developing countries are in a position to establish such monopoly positions, so the dumping charges are mostly bogus.

But what if there was competition law to counter monopoly, would the distribution of wealth be different?

No country or group of countries should be permitted to have a monopoly of these devastating weapons.

Competition among providers of complementary goods or services is harmful, and can be even worse than a monopoly. (That is why train drivers and pilots, for example, should be forced into monopoly unions that represent all of the other employees of their respective companies.)

Experts noted that when the retail market was simply opened up to FDI without the necessary conditions for fair competition being ensured old, domestic monopoly providers might be replaced with a foreign monopoly, without the requisite efficiency and welfare gains that would otherwise be expected.

When Mubarak became president in 1981, parliament granted him the right to control all military contracts without legislative oversight. In effect, the report states, he has a monopoly on military spending and imports, apparently a rich source of kickbacks each time he approves a deal.

The system is operated under a monopoly by Cable and Wireless Ltd., which has a number of Caribbean franchises.

First, scientific and technological achievements are the common heritage of humanity and are not the monopoly of some nations.

The Enola case demonstrates that being right is not enough small farmers, indigenous people, and the poor can t out last a decade of lawsuits and monopoly. Undoubtedly, international institutions and countries in the global South have far more urgent goals than to spend resources suing greedy companies.

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 real objective of the United States is to use its monopoly on nuclear weapons to dominate and dictate to others.

To that end and as a first step, the public information monopoly and its abuse for selfish purposes must be halted.

One can therefore already foresee the establishment of a veritable monopoly and dictatorial control over the exercise of the Commission's functions.

That crow enjoys a temporary monopoly on peanuts, until his friends figure out how to do it, and then there we go.

One comfort, perhaps, for the democrats is that right now China is failing to learn the Singaporean lesson, too. Its current slowdown appears to arise from a failure by the Communist Party to challenge the monopoly powers of state owned enterprises and to free up new sectors for private enterprise.

(1) The reorganization complies with the state s industrial policy and laws and administrative regulations relating to environmental protection, land management and anti monopoly

SOEs will lose their low interest loans, subsidized land, monopoly protection, and privileged housing. Party and state bureaucracies will lose power (and income).

It is a tool for those who believe that they have a monopoly on virtues on this world, rife with injustice and tyranny.

The cement market in Zambia is virtually 100 per cent controlled by the monopoly undertaking Chilanga Cement, which is part of the Lafarge Group.

Privacy is only one part of a larger discussion around data ownership and data monopoly, security, and competition. It is also about control and destiny.

As a result of technological advances, traditional sectors are converging with other sectors and the notion of what constitutes a natural monopoly is being updated.

It was also noted that the draft regulations did not appear to reflect fully the anti monopoly provisions contained in annex III of the Convention.

A large number of free trade agreements with competition policy provisions and cooperation agreements on anti monopoly matters have also been concluded among the Central and Eastern European and CIS countries.The CIS has also agreed, in the context of the creation of an economic union among its members, to create conditions for fair competition, including a mechanism for anti monopoly regulation.

As for legal measures on explosives, their import and sale are governed by a State monopoly granted to the Ministry of Mines, Energy and Hydraulics (MMEH).

Therefore, Schmeiser deprived Monsanto of the full enjoyment of its monopoly and employed or possessed the patented invention in the context of their commercial or business interests.

Manager of Butembo Airlines (BAL), which has a virtual monopoly on air traffic between Butembo and Mongbwalu (Province Orientale), where his agents purchase gold for his account