| In fact the profitable spice trade, monopolized by the Dutch, was the reason for the establishment of the company. |
| They were short of land, monopolized as it was by capitalist farmers and aged peasants. |
| Individuals of the worker caste are usually effectively sterile, and reproduction is monopolized by the queen caste. |
| The Trade Bureau monopolized the procurement, sale and export of industrial and agricultural products. |
| Aggressive clan warlords monopolized political power by controlling food distribution, coercing followers through the delivery or denial of food. |
| The new president, like the old, is a representative of some 100 oligarchic families who have long monopolized wealth and power in Bolivia. |
