| Perhaps she resents him for monopolizing her mother's attention and affection after the divorce. |
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| Therefore, parasite chicks are reared alone, monopolizing all parental care from their host parents. |
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| The resilience of its merchant groups in deflecting the European efforts at monopolizing the carrying trade in the Indian Ocean was impressive. |
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| We ask correspondents to limit their letters to 300 words in the interest of not monopolizing space in the magazine. |
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| Or they may compensate by using other strategies, such as monopolizing the conversation so they don't have to worry about what others are saying. |
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| There is no longer a single, main group monopolizing criminal activities, like the mafia or the Hells Angels. |
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| Fourth, research needs to break out of the monopolizing lens of HIV as the only focus of research interest. |
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| The LPM generally accuses the NLC of monopolizing resources, of speaking in their name or of being too cozy with governments and donors. |
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| It is perfectly true that an individual firm, or even several firms, can increase profits by monopolizing their product markets and lifting the price. |
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| Moreover an EU investigation into monopolizing practices by Gazprom may force the Kremlin to review its whole energy strategy. |
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| That's free enterprise, not a violation of antitrust law, which is defined as a group monopolizing trade or commerce through unreasonable methods. |
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| The war was also fought under army command, with that service largely monopolizing the ground war and delegating a peripheral role to the Marines. |
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| Outside of the skilled trades, unions had difficulty monopolizing the labor supply, and strikes were often a necessary tactic in gaining union recognition or a closed shop. |
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| Finally, the intergovernmental method finds member governments monopolizing both power to determine policy and power to decide how to organize cooperation. |
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| Most species that are capable of monopolizing space reproduce predominantly asexually. |
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| On that occasion, as too often in the past, the DRC was relegated to the backburner, with Iraq monopolizing the attention. |
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| What do you think I can do to stop James from monopolizing the water when he wakes up earlier than anybody? |
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| Digital cameras are monopolizing the market and changing habits of our customers. |
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| There is an increasing trend where New Age, non-Native and privileged women are monopolizing a rare resource in the form of traditional practitioners, spiritual leaders and Elders. |
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| Market monopolization was attempted early as Bulgaria, Romania, and Yugoslavia established state trading organizations that aimed to stabilize farm incomes by monopolizing the purchase and sale of cereal grains. |
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| Finally, in 1937, the U. S. Department of Justice filed a complaint charging the company with monopolizing interstate commerce in 16 markets and commodities and engaging in conspiracies with foreign producers. |
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| Walpole had governed England since 1720, monopolizing patronage, and had they thought become too ready to compromise in foreign affairs for the sake of peace. |
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| So, in many countries, direct-democratic institutions have not been established or implemented since representative elites developed a strong interest in monopolizing power. |
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| In 1950 the U. S. government charged the Shuberts with monopolizing the American theatrical industry, and in 1956 the Shubert company divested a number of theatres but retained prestigious houses in many cities. |
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| It has long been a commercial rival of ĘżUnayzah to the south, at one time controlling the export of Arab horses and monopolizing the camel caravan trade of Arabia. |
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| But the Communist Party remains insistent on monopolizing political power. |
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| It begins with a little extortion here or there and then it applies its resources to cornering, controlling and monopolizing what is otherwise a free market activity. |
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| Some viewed the Yankees as monopolizing the sport with all that money they had to offer. Well, that's the way many Bostoners viewed it. |
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| Rather than mitigate this cost, our computing devices currently exacerbate it, as their user interfaces were designed to act in isolation, monopolizing user attention. |
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| The warrant itself and the uncertainty and speculation surrounding it have become the primary political focus throughout the Sudan, monopolizing much of the leadership's attention and energy. |
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| National forestry firms were monopolizing the forestry market. |
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| For example, before it promulgated its first nuclear export control law on 1 August 1997, China took an administrative approach to manage exports in this area by monopolizing international trade. |
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| This estimate accounts for the considerable doubt that is currently monopolizing public debate about climate change and has given rise to both skepticism and apocalyptic predictions. |
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| They show a high level of concentration worldwide over at least the past four decades, with five or six countries monopolizing 80 to 90 per cent of all trade in art objects. |
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| That is, encouraging meditation without becoming actors, without providing the answers, without monopolizing discussions, without submitting our ideas as the one and only truth. |
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