Sentence examples for actual monopoly from inspiring English sources

"Tried to buy the team with actual Monopoly money, I think it was," recalled Michael Fitterer, 42, a Suffolk County Police officer who wore his navy blue uniform pants to Monday night's game, in preparation for his midnight shift.

The monopolistic market does not only cover situations where there is an actual monopoly.

"So, you know, when there's multi-hundred-million-dollar government contracts, which Boeing and Lockheed have had essentially a quasi-monopoly [on], or an actual monopoly in the case of launch, they do whatever they can to prevent us from competing".

It is puzzling today to explain diversity and imperfection of actual transmission monopoly designs in competitive electricity markets.

THE Wall Street Journal has a fascinating story today about a man named Ralph Anspach an economist who created a board game called Anti-Monopoly and was sued by actual Monopoliy producer Hasbro for his trouble.

The sports which now benefit so much from Mr Murdoch and his peers will argue that the EBU's members were for years able to pay too little, exploiting what amounted to an actual or quasi-monopoly.

Ukraine owes at least $1.4 billion for gas; Gazprom, the state-controlled Russian natural-gas monopoly, claims that the actual amount is more than $2 billion.

"Competition in physical mail" – that is competition for profits – "happens upstream", while "downstream delivery of physical mail" – that is, the actual work – "has the characteristics of a monopoly".

For a very good reason: The distribution of power, its actual delivery to your house, is still a "natural monopoly" -- you can't have multiple power lines running down each street.

This involves getting accurate data on the actual gas reserves of Gazprom, the state-run energy monopoly, and the extent of Russian investment in Central Asia.

In the eyes of many gamers, in fact, real-money trading is essentially a scam — a form of cheating only slightly more refined than, say, offering 20 actual dollars for another player's Boardwalk and Park Place in Monopoly.