Civil systems place more restrictions on acceptable clauses, and often consider the interests of third parties, such as workers or consumers.Many other countries would like to break this duopoly.
This is what we're breaking up — this duopoly".
In 1999, Bernard Arnault, head of LVMH, a French luxury-goods conglomerate, bought Phillips, a smaller auction house, with the aim of breaking the duopoly at the top of the market.
When he failed, he took over Phillips, a smaller auction house, with the aim of breaking the duopoly of Sotheby's and Christie's at the top of the market.
Two new television channels will be auctioned within months, breaking the duopoly of Televisa and TV Azteca.He also announced plans to take on the teachers' union, a fearsome organisation that long enjoyed a cosy relationship with the PRI.
If there was a year for an Independent to break the duopoly, this was it, right?
Dramatist and architect John Vanbrugh saw this as an opportunity to break the duopoly of the patent theatres, and in 1703 he acquired a former stable yard, at a cost of £2000, for the construction of a new theatre on the Haymarket.
Novak Djokovic, the country's transcendent sporting superstar, has not only broken the duopoly in men's tennis of Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal, which has for so long seemed inviolable, but has done so on a gluten-free diet.
If they can ever break that duopoly, which seems to have held a grip for as long as the shortened game has been played, they can really start to feel fulfilled so far from home.
Google is showing the government "that we can have super-fast open broadband networks that break the duopoly of cable and telephone companies that we have today," said Ben Scott, policy director for Free Press, a public interest group that advocates for open Internet rules.
