| Aggressive clan warlords monopolized political power by controlling food distribution, coercing followers through the delivery or denial of food. |
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| Company ships armed to fight pirates also defeated trading rivals and monopolized foreign trade. |
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| The criminal deed is the sons' murder of the tribal patriarch who had monopolized the women of the horde. |
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| Grain trading and livestock production in the US is monopolized by two of the world's largest grain traders. |
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| In fact the profitable spice trade, monopolized by the Dutch, was the reason for the establishment of the company. |
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| Individuals of the worker caste are usually effectively sterile, and reproduction is monopolized by the queen caste. |
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| The Trade Bureau monopolized the procurement, sale and export of industrial and agricultural products. |
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| They were short of land, monopolized as it was by capitalist farmers and aged peasants. |
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| The new president, like the old, is a representative of some 100 oligarchic families who have long monopolized wealth and power in Bolivia. |
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| All their energy is ceaseless, day and night, monopolized by the conscious. |
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| This situation is worsened by the fact that there is a growing tendency of the private media to be monopolized by a few media owners. |
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| The Punjabi-dominated military and bureaucratic establishment could not countenance losing its grip on the power it had monopolized for so long. |
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| Women were encouraged to go into occupations once monopolized by men. |
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| All of the early metals were expensive commodities in antiquity and were monopolized by kings, priests, and officials. |
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| Instead of producing food, farmland in the Global South is being monopolized by sugar cane and African palm farmers just to produce agrofuels. |
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| Moreover, women have been granted the right for the first time in Morocco to join the police force, which was previously monopolized by men. |
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| Descriptive signs belong to public domain: They must remain available to everyone equally and may not be monopolized. |
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| Perhaps the best place to start is to understand what intelligence always was before the Cold War monopolized it. |
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| Particularly not requiring traffic to take a specific path and acting against monopolized environments. |
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| Historically, the electric power generation industry has been monopolized by large regulated utilities. |
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| In terms of track two diplomacy, one of the problems is that the United States has monopolized this issue. |
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| Chemical processing sectors related to state security and with a strategic importance such as rubber should be controlled or even monopolized by the state. |
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| And this trade was for a long time monopolized by Shanxi merchants. |
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| The current organization of the passengers road transport is dominated and monopolized by the informal sector, which cannot ensure a reliable quality of service. |
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| By 1847 he had monopolized the lowlands' revenues from trade and smuggling, forcing Gonder's leading magnates to integrate him into the establishment. |
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| This 'new' law is demolishing the barrier of state sovereignty that for centuries monopolized human life, international legal personality, the use of force, and citizenship. |
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| Such individuals will then be a constant threat to those who monopolized educational opportunities and this indeed is a threat to social peace in our country. |
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| Wood-block printing had been a comparatively inexpensive method of reproducing image and text monopolized by the Buddhist establishment for purposes of proselytization since the 8th century. |
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| But human dignity could not be compromised on any of those grounds, and failure to respect it was usually a sign that the fundamental ideas of a culture or religion were being monopolized by particular groups. |
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| To do this, we must stay the course and with SFOR guarantee that the forces of violence are indeed monopolized and out of the hands of criminals and hatemongers. |
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| China is the oldest exporter of tea and monopolized the international tea market until Western powers started competing for trade in the 16th century. |
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| In fact, the sudden retreat of the World War III specter allowed us, for the first time, to think seriously about the health of the planet, whereas until then only humankind's had monopolized our attention. |
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| He further argued that a resource or an area which could be used by all without deterioration or depletion should not be monopolized by one State but should be open to all. |
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| The style of grand prince was eventually monopolized by the rulers of Muscovy, and from 1547 it was superseded by the title of tsar for the sovereign. |
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| As a young man, Walpole had bought shares in the South Sea Company, which monopolized trade with Spain, the Caribbean and South America. |
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| Portugal monopolized the spice trade during this time, and the empire expanded with military campaigns in Asia. |
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| Many Haitians as well as observers of the Haitian society believe that this monopolized power could have given way to a corrupt police force. |
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| In a small department like Saskatchewan's, especially when someone as dominant as Norman Ward monopolized the sub-field, there was not great latitude to acquire a broad acquaintanceship with the subject. |
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| Once into the Mediterranean, the trade was largely monopolized by Italian powers, especially Venice and Genoa. |
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| One group monopolized the camping area, taking almost all of the campsites. |
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| Brangelina monopolized the paparazzi. Vinnifer had the gossips geysering. |
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| The other reason was that Standard Oil monopolized the oil industry. |
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| Another possible explanation is that during the 5th century social struggles, the office of consul was gradually monopolized by a patrician elite. |
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| The company has monopolized the market for computer operating systems. |
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| Before divestiture, the telephone company monopolized the state. |
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