Sentence examples for effective monopoly from inspiring English sources

After that, a franchise owner has an effective monopoly on their route for years.

Competitors say this is down to underinvestment by BT, because it has an effective monopoly.

Its effective monopoly will end when Deutsche Bahn also starts running trains through the tunnel.

Under the government plan, each of the two companies would have an effective monopoly.

It looked as if it would keep its effective monopoly, until last month.

It now has an effective monopoly among London's 20,000 cabbies.

Mr. Jaiswal said the state would not be able to continue to grant effective monopolies in the liquor business.

With effective monopolies, local authorities have little incentive to respond to parent demand and raise standards by setting up good, new schools.

This creation of a new economic élite, with effective monopolies in fields such as transportation, mining, and telecommunications, resembles the creation, around the same time, of the new crony-capitalist oligarchy in Russia.

Mr Hughes would like to increase the scrutiny of those private companies which have "effective monopolies" providing certain public services, such as National Grid, water supply companies and, in some places, housing associations.

Small businesses don't get much help from the state; the tax laws are complicated and contradictory; there is an effective state monopoly on the supply of lumber, given the difficulties of trade with Russia, Ukraine and Belarus; and with Poland still outside the European Union and membership probably four years away, she feels that "our Western partners take advantage of our weaknesses".