| The new president, like the old, is a representative of some 100 oligarchic families who have long monopolized wealth and power in Bolivia. |
| Grain trading and livestock production in the US is monopolized by two of the world's largest grain traders. |
| The Trade Bureau monopolized the procurement, sale and export of industrial and agricultural products. |
| They were short of land, monopolized as it was by capitalist farmers and aged peasants. |
| Company ships armed to fight pirates also defeated trading rivals and monopolized foreign trade. |
| In fact the profitable spice trade, monopolized by the Dutch, was the reason for the establishment of the company. |
