The armed forces implement the state monopoly on violence.

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

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

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

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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).

For example, the Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council (SASAC) is the ministry level government institution responsible for state owned enterprises. Its task now includes eliminating the SOEs monopoly power, which is hampering market competition.

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Monopoly is a popular game for families to play.

No one could maintain a monopoly in this area.

Frequent and direct security coordination, in addition to the implementation of confidence building measures, would assist President Abbas in his efforts to establish control and exercise the effective monopoly on the use of force that is a chief characteristic of State and proto State authorities.

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.

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

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.

Immediate challenges for the Authority and for civil society include rebuilding the rule of law and a respected security sector that can reassert the monopoly over the use of force that is a characteristic of any functioning State.

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.

Mubarak still commands disproportionate assets name recognition, a virtual monopoly on state controlled electronic media and some 85 of the print media. One week before the poll, some opposition candidates have yet to air even one campaign ad on Egyptian television.

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.

Yet the top priority for the leader of a fragmented state is to gain and consolidate a monopoly on the legitimate use of lethal force. And donor countries tend to support the leader, because doing so allows them to standardize and simplify assistance.

Gas provides a tempting form of leverage, and Russia had already used it against Georgia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Moldova. But when Gazprom, the Russian state gas monopoly, followed Putin s instructions to turn off the spigot to Ukraine, Russia crossed a new threshold.

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.

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.

Order No. 032 MMEH DC CTMII OBM DDM of 17 November 1992 amending Order No. 115 MTPT DMGM of 22 November 1973 granting the State monopoly for the import and sale of explosives in the Republic of Benin to the Office of Mines, Geology and Hydrocarbons.

It is interesting to note that in France, where the tradition of service public remains a priority and liberalization is being implemented cautiously, introduction of competition in the electricity sector was precipitated by the ambitions of the then integrated State owned monopoly to expand elsewhere in Europe.

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.

Much of the income from GDP growth went to large state owned enterprises, which strengthened their monopoly power. And a substantial share of China s output goes abroad, with exports exceeding imports by enough to create a current account surplus of more than 350 billion over the past year.

For too long there has been international dismay at the state of governance in Africa corruption and at times a complete lack of accountability are blamed for all of Africa s ills. Although this is largely the case, no one can claim that Africans have a monopoly on governance failures.

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.

In his latest book, Harvard professor Steven Pinker and many other thinkers before him concludes that one of the main drivers behind less violent societies is the spread of the constitutional state and the introduction on a large scale of the state monopoly on the legitimized use of violence legitimized by a democratically elected government, legitimized by checks and balances and an independent judicial system.

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