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Violent suppression and opinion monopoly are used by all totalitarian political systems for the purpose of perpetrating their immoral rule.
Today, however, the show is generally acknowledged as a landmark event that cracked the West's monopoly on contemporary art.
That's the legal term used to describe a company that leverages a monopoly in one market into an adjacent area.
Sovereignty resides in the people and no branch may claim to possess a monopoly of the sovereign powers.
Conservative governments commercialised a public service, broke its monopoly on stamp sales and closed many hundreds of sub post offices.
With cities from Shanghai to Beijing to Shenzhen vying for a piece of the action, Hong Kong is losing its monopoly on China trade.
The planned expansion is expected to put the company in a competitive position if Gasprom's monopoly over natural gas transportation is waived.
Personal medical services break the monopoly of the independently contracted general practitioner.
Deregulation has the effect of causing many state-owned insurers to lose their monopoly on the local markets.
Decriminalisation has all the disadvantages of increased use while allowing gangs to retain their virtual monopoly on production and supply.
The Post Office has a monopoly on these services and customers do not have the luxury of choosing another supplier in the immediate area.
He did at one stage manage to employ one quarter of that number, but even with the monopoly on army supplies he never broke even.
In Pattaya, by contrast, the baht bus enjoys a de facto monopoly on the taxi service.
From its harbours, Albuquerque's fleet brutally enforced the Portuguese monopoly of the spice trade.
The firm has an effective monopoly on the supermarket trolley advertising business in Ireland.
Further it said as a natural monopoly the rail network presents a rather different problem.
As we've discussed, fiber is an area where it might make sense for a single network that everyone has access to, since it's a natural monopoly.
The highway system is a natural monopoly if the way to get goods and services to various destinations is the automobile.
After all, health care is not a public good or natural monopoly so one can't argue that government must provide it.
It may even be that critical intellectuals have some special obligations, though they have no monopoly on thinking or wisdom.
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Chew's success demonstrates that professional historians have no monopoly on environmental history.
The militias pose a long-term problem for security, since they violate the state's monopoly on the use of force.
What seems to remain the same, however, is that men retain their monopoly of positions involving power and authority.
Examples of distortions are monopoly rents, hidden subsidies, artificially determined floors and ceilings on input prices.
European social democracy cannot allow populist discontent to become a monopoly of the right.
Blogging is said to have changed modern journalism by challenging the cosy media monopoly with its grass-roots approach to issues.
Last year, his attempt to corner the market in television football fell foul of British monopoly authorities.
There's plenty of irony in seeing one monopoly accuse another monopoly of restricting users' choices.
And the contestability of the market means that it cannot take that present back once it has acquired a monopoly.
This medical monopoly has throughout the twentieth century continued to consolidate and strengthen its power.
Women working at maquiladoras are the bearers of labor sought for alliance by monopoly capital in a new international division of labor.
With a monopoly, you get to generate a large cash flow from rental of all the properties.
We therefore consider there is a case for retaining the complex monopoly provisions and propose to do so.
As with the pure monopoly, companies would join a cartel in order to try to protect themselves from the harmful consequences of competition.
Journalists don't have the monopoly on plagiarism, nor are they the worst offenders.
And so it seems blundering in haste and repenting at leisure is no one's monopoly.
The profession must recognise that it does not have a monopoly of either wisdom or knowledge.
And in 1598 the Privy Council confirmed this arrangement by granting them a joint monopoly.
She has managed to destroy past impressions of her as an iron-fisted hater of consumers and worshipper of monopoly.
The price of a bottle of Absolut Vodka at Systembolaget, the state-run alcohol monopoly, will fall from 230 kronor to 160 kronor.
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As a general rule, these companies were given a monopoly on trade in a region.
Well, if market power is no longer the advantage that flows from monopoly or near monopoly, what is it now?
On this view, the Commission represents the general interest and has the monopoly over legislative initiation.
Its charter granted monopoly rights to trade in lands whose waters drained into Hudson Bay.
This monopoly was naturally challenged and within a few years evaded by the development of a different recipe for compo.
The state-owned company remains the monopoly train operator on the main lines, although secondary routes are put out to competitive tender.
Regulations are driving small companies out of business, leaving the multinationals in a monopoly position in the supply chain.
Certainly, massive health bureaucracies and well endowed research institutions do not have a monopoly on wisdom.
But the religious-economies model predicts that religiosity will grow weaker if these monopoly religions retain their political favoritism.
The idea that vertical integration increases monopoly power is highly suspect.
However, at this time there were already many established firms that produced train oil and thus held a certain monopoly.
Men have a monopoly in public speaking, landowning rights, and religious rituals.
As a free marketeer, I hate monopoly of any sort, be it economic, cultural or social.
But as long as others are free to offer bribes, some will try to buy special licenses to bypass the monopoly.
It will remain a state-owned monopoly, providing healthcare free at the point of need.
It is a well-known phrase that if there is one thing worse than a public monopoly, it is a private monopoly.
The fact remains that banks are able to charge usuriously high interest rates because the government secures their monopoly.
The electricity grid in a local neighborhood is a good example of a natural monopoly.
The monopoly in politics, or bossism, may possibly be abolished by direct legislation or by proportional representation.
Unfortunately, when one is in the hands of a monopoly supplier, the only things you can be sure of are increased bills and fat-cat bosses.
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Judge Marilyn Hall Patel is questioning whether the big five record companies are colluding to create a monopoly in their industry.
By the beginning of the '60s, television was loosening newspapers' monopoly on the news.
For a marketing manager, product differentiation becomes a key to gaining a degree of monopoly power in a market.
Partly this reflects their monopoly of parish discussions, which means their musings go unchallenged.
As it stands, bandits clearly hold the monopoly on firearms and evidently, supplies aren't limited.
No one group has a monopoly on useful perspectives so an effective mix of views is important.
He also considered conditions for equilibrium with monopoly, duopoly and perfect competition.
The president was empowered to appoint ministers and dissolve the assembly, holding a monopoly of executive power.
Thus, the imperfectly competing firms faced a more elastic demand for their services than would a monopoly railroad.
But in a supposedly multicultural society like ours, it seems crazy that it should enjoy a monopoly.
It is what monopoly legislation was meant to be about as uncontrolled domination by one participant in any market is undesirable.
By 1888 he had created an effective monopoly through his company, which displaced smaller companies as well as white and black diggers.
A pure monopolist is a single seller of a unique product which is the sole source of the firm's monopoly power.
To allow this would be to drive a coach and horses through the traditional monopoly of the legal profession to appear on behalf of litigants.
That reflects a relationship where the company is using its monopoly clout to drive some hard bargains.
It is tyrannical because, while it asserts a global monopoly of violence, we cannot peacefully remove and replace it.
This dynamic is amplified in some localities where large firms have attained effective monopoly power.
The scope of the monopoly that a patentee gets is determined by the claims.
In this manner, the imperfect market for players has been transformed from one of monopsony to that of bilateral monopoly.
The characteristic feature of monopoly prices is the monopolist's defiance of the wishes of the consumers.
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When you talk about withdrawing your services from the sick, it's just like the monopolists using monopoly power.
It would infuse the vitality of a free market and thus break the state educational monopoly.
Clinical trials have no special monopoly on the high intellectual road and certainly not on the truth about suffering people.
The conservative talk jocks have been purveying this canard to explain their monopoly of the spectrum.
Their collective rights prevail over individual or corporate monopoly interests.
Capitalist broadcasting could bring innovation where previously there had been the dead hand of a monopoly.
Accordingly, the scope of the monopoly asserted by the patentees does not correspond to the technical contribution made by the patent.
The commercial monopoly of the Dutch was highly advantageous to the character of the Javans.
The Austrians have no monopoly on racism, but the success of Haider is not really about Austria.
In 1891-92 Iran was roiled by protests against a tobacco monopoly granted to a British freebooter, a Major Talbot.
But don't think for a second that the Fed has some kind of monopoly on a situation where rapacity pervades honest reason.
Ditching old equipment while making a tidy profit is classic Bell monopoly reaming.
The meeting was in agreement that action has to be taken to end the monopoly.
We do not have a monopoly on wind-blown flats, but hot air coming off the Gulf is a common occurrence.
The patentee may not obtain a monopoly for matter which he has not told the public about.
The concept of peace is open, like freedom and justice, with no culture having any monopoly on its definition.
Photosynthesis and primary production were the monopoly of bacteria and algal protists that populated the world's shallow seas.
It broke a 40-year monopoly of the two openly capitalist parties over working class politics.
They were too busy with the remunerative work of stationary engine building under their patent monopoly to trouble with speculative business.
The repeal of the import duty would brush away at one stroke the danger of monopoly.
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Rampant competition among reprinters also helped to guarantee a relative absence of monopoly in the production of literature.
I publish my own zine attacking the media monopoly, and I also write for the National Post.
Neither side has a monopoly on either good ideas or glaring contradictions.
In the seventeenth century, and before, power resided in the military, but the state did not have the monopoly of armed force.
The UN has never pretended to have a monopoly on the peaceful resolution of disputes.
Using this model, the Court determined that Article 10 was violated when Austria legislated a public monopoly on broadcasting.
The communication, cooperation, and even conspiratorial planning between the components of the monopoly are unquestionable.
We think of creative work as a purely human thing, and wrap invention in mystery and legal monopoly of copyrights and patents.
The socialists, who have had a virtual monopoly in Greece for 20 years, proved to be more effective market liberalizers than the conservatives.
So that modern monopoly is not a simple antithesis, it is on the contrary the true synthesis.
The strength of this approach comes from the regulator being pro-active with an ongoing monopoly or antitrust policy.
If Ebay, which has a virtual monopoly on classifieds is so hostile to decentralization, perhaps Ebay is vulnerable to the syndication model?
Sure, we have our opinion on the issues, but we don't think we have a monopoly on morality or righteousness.
The Holy Places, sacred to three great religions, must be open to all, the monopoly of none.
Most representative, as well as most worrisome, is the fact that the state's monopoly on weapons is being seriously challenged.
The nuclear-tipped missile challenged the monopoly of manned bombers in nuclear war.
But America's monopoly on the weapon until 1949 saved Western Europe from Stalinism.
It is Balkanized along state laws that end up protecting the monopoly utilities.
Why the huge gap between the monopoly patent protected price and the competitive market price?
Could it be something to do with Telecom's monopoly in the DSL marketspace?
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It is baffling to me why anyone would want to create a monopoly, a power to censor and prohibit, and ban the reporting of open justice.
Meanwhile, one-party states achieved a monopoly on force, almost inevitably secured with mass murder.
The successful test of Sakharov's bomb in August 1953 ended America's thermonuclear monopoly and earned the physicist his first medal.
His monopoly, they say, was threatening to kill off any semblance of competition in a discipline that used to thrive on it.
Small island states often make mistakes, but they have no monopoly on error.
I felt that, as a person with the disease, I'd have a sort of monopoly on jokes about it.
If one industry is in control and has a monopoly, what is the point in having an industry body that is self-regulating?
The common treatment of the monopoly question is thoroughly mendacious and dishonest.
In the past, monopoly providers worked together to prevent local or regional blackouts.
First of all, common sense would dictate that this is a non sequitur, because the federal and state education collusion is a monopoly itself.
If you want people to stop evading fares, stop using your monopoly to set prices so ridiculously high.
Within weeks, as the betel crops of villagers throughout the region recovered, the people of Nganga and Pitoli lost their monopoly of the market.
The British colonial government had built it as a watch-station, lest anyone should try to break the government monopoly by mining his own salt.
Ireland, in short, has no monopoly on the use of memoir, fiction, biography or autobiography as a political tool.
They had taken possession of Orissa and its salt industry in the year 1803 and organized the industry by introducing monopoly system.
But ultimately, the onslaught of negative feedback forced the lingerie monopoly to remove the item from its inventory.
In terms of its obligations under European Union accession, Bulgaria has to end the monopoly of the state railways, BDZ, and open the market to private railway carriers.
It amounts to a bloated and inefficient government monopoly.
In theory, but seldom in practice, their supposedly superior knowledge gave them a monopoly over the practice of physic and the authority to supervise the work of surgeons.
The privatization of the tobacco monopoly brought about, in accordance with the theoretical predictions, a change in management accounting systems.
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Like many self-rule foes, Hussein dismisses plans for a regional government as a PYD bid to establish a political monopoly.
The idea is the brainchild of Putin's minister of agriculture, Aleksey Gordeev, who proposes re-establishing a state monopoly on the production and sale of alcohol.
Prescription only would result in a monopoly by veterinary surgeons.
Where it is clear that the patentee did not intend to obtain protection for particular variants, it is not open to the court to extend the monopoly to cover them.
The only way to break their hold is to remove their monopoly on supply.
Market concentration is economic power based on the level of monopoly or oligopoly that Chaebol affiliates hold in the markets of their respective areas of business.
Its unhappy record of arrogant insouciance and incompetence as a monopoly service provider has given its new rivals a record of leaky credibility against which to run.
During Elizabeth's reign they succeeded in seeing off the challenge of the Hanse, but protests against their monopoly persisted and the advocates of free trade gained ground.
It is the essence of monopoly that the monopolist has the power to set the price of his product, which is effected by altering the amount that is supplied.
The so-called ultramontanes believed that the state should serve as the secular arm of the Church and enforce its monopoly of the truth against all rival ideologies.
And at the same time it would create a nice comfortable monopoly on waste disposal all the better for jacking up fees and squeezing rate payers till the pips squeak.
Still, in order to ensure that the derogation from common law would not be excessive, it was deemed appropriate to limit the duration of the monopoly.
The fact that the demand curve is downward sloping indicates that consumers are sensitive to prices offered by any one competing or monopoly operator.
These ideas had a wide influence on the creation of the Franc Germinal and on the law granting the Banque de France its monopoly on issuing banknotes.
The full-forward line maintained their monopoly on scoring with two more points from Kilkenny and Carty to put Aghamore five ahead after eleven minutes.
It is a natural monopoly and best owned by the state, he thought.
Whether the object of destruction by the medical monopoly be homeopaths, midwives, chiropractors, or internet prescribers, the purge is conducted in the same manner.
Ben-Gurion kept his word, and the Orthodox monopoly was anchored in other developments, as well.
I think we've seen the peak of the right wing gasbag monopoly.
For nearly two thousand years, religious groups have held a monopoly on how to teach morals to young children.
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To believers in creation, the Darwinists seem thoroughly intolerant and dogmatic when they insist that their own philosophy must have a monopoly in the schools and the media.
The left has been ceded a monopoly on caring about black people, and monopolies are dangerous.
Through the power of monopoly and sharply cutting royalty payments, Chesapeake Energy is now sitting on mountains of money.
The instant version of news was the monopoly of the television channels and the long winding analysis was firmly the domain of the weekly and the fortnightly.
The church has had a monopoly on birth, death and marriage rituals for centuries, but life's great moments don't need a dog collar to make them special.
This situation will change in 2001 when that monopoly is lifted, allowing other phone operators to install equipment and offer their own local services.
Architects have no unique insights into these questions and have no monopoly on the answers but, as citizens, they have as much to offer as anyone else.
First, congressionally charter Blue Cross-Blue Shield as a monopoly to provide basic coverage to all Americans, except retirees.
At this stage in history, the merchant class, desperate for money to finance their adventures, struggled with the monopoly of the moneylenders and overcame it.
But Railtrack is a natural monopoly and if it is to work in the interest of the people, rather than shareholders, then it must be owned by the people.
Clerics must now share their ethical monopoly with the ballot box.
First, the original monopoly power inhered in land ownership.
There is something wonderfully incongruent in the Royal Mail celebrating its monopoly powers by increasing the price of a first class stamp yet again.
Poorly designed policies can delay corrective steps and create monopoly.
The electricity sector is heavily regulated, and the service is mostly provided by monopoly public sector utilities that fail to meet the demand, causing frequent blackouts.
The Wright brothers showed that heavier-than-air flight was possible, but that did not entitle them to a monopoly of heavier-than-air flying machines.
The rejoinder, of course, is that while we all have our individual estimations of the skills and predilections of each enforcement level, none has a monopoly on virtue.
The utility was given monopoly status, in return for releasing control of electric rates and a number of other parameters to its regulatory commission.
I think that any visual statement has to communicate at multiple levels intellectually and emotively and there is no country with a monopoly in that area.
In practice juries were rarely interested in establishing whether a forestaller was aiming to create a monopoly or whether any degree of monopoly had in fact been created.
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The presence of monopoly rents tends to foster rent-seeking behavior.
Property can be just as much a rent-seeking device as monopoly.
Along with the US, it could become a monopoly consumer of services and even repatriate revenue that doctors in developing countries earned from treating local patients.
In some respects, the agrarian views were even more extreme in Canada, and the distrust of monopoly elements and speculators on the grain exchange even more deep rooted.
This represents only one of the aspects of the ecclesiastical monopoly over written culture and Latin, the only language that could be used for writing.
America has no monopoly on nation-building or reconstruction experience.
Phones had to be rented from the giant government-regulated monopoly that controlled all telecommunications in the United States.
While he declined to comment on specific remedies, he did say he thinks trustbusters can seek a punishment that covers new efforts to extend the company's monopoly.
The Company lost its monopoly on Indian trade in 1813, and its charter for Chinese trade was removed in 1833, after which it ceased to be a trading concern.
Maybe we should just revert back to the days of the ma bell monopoly and start leasing our phones again?
In the Po Valley, with its large capitalist farms, socialist leagues finally managed in early 1920 to win a monopoly control of the hiring of labour.
The new machines carried the day and the exclusiveness of skilled workers, who had established an almost dynastic monopoly of some crafts, was broken down.
If they are untroubled by the castration of the system of checks and balances, they give the bureaucracy a monopoly of power and make it unaccountable to the people.
But as long as the political monopoly of the slaveholders was broken, enfranchised blacks would have the power to prevent the re-emergence of aristocracy and inequality.
Of course, this country has no monopoly on ridiculous elections.
In the context of a liberal democratic society, this is a preferred approach to either party having a monopoly of power or the government regulating all aspects of employment.
Germany had a virtual monopoly of the production of artificial dyestuffs, in which the record of the Badische Anilin and Soda Fabrik at Ludwigshafen was outstanding.
The rabbinate, which is a government-paid body, has a monopoly over family life.
If this competition were to be removed then the private companies would have a monopoly on the collection service and would therefore be free to charge as they pleased.
On the face of it, it is a little undiplomatic for a Foreign Office Minister to suggest that the British have a monopoly on rational and civilised behaviour.
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The enquiry could find that a monopoly situation exists among the manufacturers, wholesalers or even veterinary surgeons, which prevents or distorts competition.
It is good that authors should be remunerated and the least exceptionable way of remunerating them is by a monopoly, yet monopoly is an evil for the sake of the good.
In the past, monopoly was formed when the government granted a franchise to certain companies so that they could invest in new products and provide essential services.
To call the Canadian publisher harlequin a monopoly in the romance genre might be an overstatement, but not by much.
As the country's former monopoly supplier of telephone services and the meat in the sandwich of the country's biggest stock fiasco, Eircom will always struggle to get a break.
It is axiomatic that all monopoly groups, emerging from time to time, will remain the continuous target of the people so as to keep India free of despotism.
Where efficiency is defined by the total gains from trade, the monopoly setting is less efficient than perfect competition.
A natural monopoly suffers from the same inefficiencies as any other monopoly.
So while he bought up rival companies and created a monopoly, he kept his prices low and campaigned vigorously for regulation.
The monopoly was generated by formal meetings of the local management of coal companies agreeing to fix a minimum price for sale at dock.
And lest you be deceived, primary elections are no partisan monopoly.
The public broadcasting companies held a monopoly on radio and television for a long time in Sweden.
Instead of the power of monopoly, consumers lose to the power of confusopoly.
It will not do to say that the Irish have a monopoly on stupidity, yet there have been times when I thought they nearly cornered the market.
The bank has a monopoly on the issue of banknotes in England and Wales, although not in other parts of the United Kingdom.
After the turn of the century, the United Kingdom's industrial monopoly was challenged by Germany and the United States.
Mercantilism grew, and monopoly trading companies such as the East India Company were established, with trade expanding to the New World.
The growth of monopoly power retarded economic progress by hampering the growth of entrepreneurship and innovationism.
The Merchant Adventurers, the company which enjoyed the monopoly of the Flemish wool trade, relocated from Antwerp to Calais.
In the 18th century all surviving interests in the monopoly were bought out by John Baskett.
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James provoked further opposition by attempting to reduce the Anglican monopoly on education.
In 1909, Churchill made several speeches with strong Georgist rhetoric, stating that land ownership is at the source of all monopoly.
The economic monopoly of the metropolis was the main reason why many countries decided to become independent from Spain.
The Ottoman Empire had failed to raise revenue and a monopoly of effective armed forces.
This monopoly, which lasted for a considerable time, helped Newcastle prosper and develop into a major town.
The mythological origins of the oil fields at Yenangyaung, and its hereditary monopoly control by 24 families, indicate very ancient origins.
Common market structures studied besides perfect competition include monopolistic competition, various forms of oligopoly, and monopoly.
Although it is an Indian religion, Sikhism rejects claims that any particular religious tradition has a monopoly on Absolute Truth.
He was provided with a house on the river at Blackfriars, then just outside the City and hence avoiding the monopoly of the Painters Guild.
Performances outside the patent theatres were instrumental in bringing the monopoly to an end.
In 1843 the Theatres Regulation Act finally brought the patent companies' monopoly to an end.
The passing of the Theatres Act 1843 removed the monopoly on drama held by the Patent theatres.
Sky's monopoly was broken from August 2006 when Setanta Sports was awarded rights to show two out of the six packages of matches available.
Anarchists note that the state possesses the monopoly on the legal use of violence.
In radio, DR has a near monopoly, currently broadcasting on all four nationally available FM channels, competing only with local stations.
The Danish government had maintained a strict monopoly of Greenlandic trade, allowing only small scale troaking with Scottish whalers.
At one stage the trade was the monopoly of the Royal Africa Company, operating out of London.
But, following the loss of the company's monopoly in 1689, Bristol and Liverpool merchants became increasingly involved in the trade.
The discovery of new maritime trade routes by Western European states allowed them to avoid the Ottoman trade monopoly.
Since 1621, the Dutch West India Company had operated as a monopoly in New Netherland, on authority granted by the Dutch States General.
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The BBC's broadcasting monopoly was made explicit for the duration of its current broadcast licence, as was the prohibition on advertising.
The income from the salt trade was lost in 1594 because of the establishment of the ducal salt monopoly.
He maintained an effective monopoly on Soviet relations from 1956 on, which was crucial for his continued popularity.
By contrast Malta, with one of the world's highest voter turnouts, has a single legislature that holds a near monopoly on political power.
Whisky retail sales in Finland are controlled solely by the state alcohol monopoly Alko and advertising of strong alcoholic beverages is banned.
The right to issue banknotes was extended to other banks after 1716 when the Bank of Scotland's monopoly was allowed to lapse.
His government had a company, Fu Ning Company, which had a monopoly over commerce and industrial activity in Ningxia.
It was believed that they maintained a monopoly on ironworking, and that their empire had been based on that advantage.
It was only in 1981 that the government allowed free broadcasting in the territory, ending state monopoly on radio.
Passenger services are operated by Eurostar, who has a practical monopoly on tunnel passenger services.
Consequently, when Gustav Vasa or Gustav I broke the monopoly power of the Hanseatic League he was regarded as a hero by the Swedish people.
From the 8th until the 15th century, they held the monopoly of European trade with the Middle East.
With their new monopoly, Fulton and Livingston's boat, named the Clermont after Livingston's estate, could make a profit.
Portugal maintained a commercial monopoly of these commodities for several decades.
The Arabs also had no desire to allow the Portuguese to break their monopoly on access to spices.
In August 2013, work began on a new pipeline between Moldova and Romania that may eventually break Russia's monopoly on Moldova's gas supplies.
Economically, Gustav Vasa broke the monopoly of the Hanseatic League over Swedish Baltic Sea trade.
Consequently, when Gustav Vasa or Gustav I broke the monopoly power of the Hanseatic League he was regarded as a hero to the Swedish people.
An illicit trade continued with foreigners after the Danes implemented a trade monopoly.
Still the influence of the world economy on the USSR was limited by fixed domestic prices and a state monopoly on foreign trade.
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As free trade thrives on exports of commodities, monopoly capitalism thrived on the export of capital amassed by profits from banks and industry.
Later his brother Prince Pedro, granted him a royal monopoly of all profits from trading within the areas discovered.
In 1443 Prince Pedro, Henry's brother, granted him the monopoly of navigation, war and trade in the lands south of Cape Bojador.
Portugal enjoyed a virtual monopoly of the Atlantic slave trade for over a century, exporting around 800 slaves annually.
The aim of Portugal in the Indian Ocean was to ensure the monopoly of the spice trade.
The annual monopoly system was abandoned in 1597, and the royal monopoly resumed.
Genoa replaced Venice in the monopoly of commerce with the Black Sea territories.
Existing revolts over the government salt monopoly and severe floods along the Yellow River provoked the Red Turban Rebellion.
His accounts of salt production and revenues from the salt monopoly are also accurate, and accord with Chinese documents of the Yuan era.
The main source of revenue of the government was the monopoly of salt production.
The Emperors of China strove to keep knowledge of sericulture secret to maintain the Chinese monopoly.
For example, Walter Raleigh had been granted a trade monopoly by Queen Elizabeth, for the export of broadcloth and wine.
A notable event in 1935 was the granting of a monopoly on mineral mining to the Sierra Leone Selection Trust, run by De Beers.
Afonso V appealed to the Pope for moral support of Portugal's right to a monopoly of trade in lands she discovered.
With the bull the Portuguese had a monopoly for trade in the new areas in Africa and Asia.
In 1469, King Afonso V of Portugal granted him the monopoly of trade in the Gulf of Guinea.
He also received a monopoly of trade in guinea pepper for another yearly payment of 100,000 reais.
It had a monopoly on commercial banking until a change in the banking law in 2003 led to the entry of several other banks.
Later, cities like Bruges and Antwerp actively tried to take over the monopoly of trade from the Hansa, inviting foreign merchants to join in.
Business monopoly in some sectors causes higher profit bookings and further raising of prices.
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The society in its current form was established by a 1552 Royal Charter from Edward VI granting the society a monopoly on Bristol's sea trade.
The opposition attributed the results in part to the virtual Colorado monopoly on the mass media.
With the English paying higher prices, they were significantly undermining Dutch aims for a monopoly.
The production and export of nutmeg was a VOC monopoly for almost two hundred years.
Portugal enjoyed a virtual monopoly on the African seaborne slave trade for over a century, importing around 800 slaves annually.
The monopoly ended in 2002 and several casino owners from Las Vegas attempted to enter the market.
The exact route was kept secret to protect the Spanish trade monopoly against competing powers, and to avoid Dutch and English pirates.
In 1765 the crown created a monopoly on tobacco, which directly affected agriculture and manufacturing the Veracruz region.
They had a monopoly of the black pepper commerce in Portugal and some of them later moved to Antwerp in Belgium.
This information later helped both the Dutch and the English to challenge the Portuguese monopoly on East Indian trade.
Francis took several steps to eradicate the monopoly of Latin as the language of knowledge.
The VOC enjoyed huge profits from its spice monopoly through most of the 17th century.
In 1640, the VOC obtained the port of Galle, Ceylon, from the Portuguese and broke the latter's monopoly of the cinnamon trade.
The military outlays that the VOC needed to make to enhance its monopoly were not justified by the increased profits of this declining trade.
Methods used to maintain the monopoly involved extortion and the violent suppression of the native population, including mass murder.
This monopoly would be valid for four voyages, all of which had to be undertaken within three years after it was awarded.
The HBC negotiated a trading monopoly from the English crown for the Hudson Bay watershed, called Rupert's Land.
In addition, the Hanseatic League had a monopoly on the trade between Russia and Central and Western Europe.
Although they had opened an unknown route, Jan Pietersz Coen of the VOC claimed infringement of its monopoly of trade to the Spice Islands.
With loss of revenue from land tax, the central imperial government relied heavily on salt monopoly.

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