Sentence examples for formidable monopoly from inspiring English sources
And even strong critics of Microsoft have worried that a horizontal breakup would have a perverse effect: the now "naked" operating-system company would abandon its traditional pricing restraint and use its still formidable monopoly power to charge much more.
EchoStar says that buying the parent of DirecTV, Hughes Electronics, from General Motors will create a formidable competitor to cable TV monopolies, adding local TV channels in dozens of towns and adding high-speed Internet services in rural communities.
Airlines, the most potent of national champions, will feel the wind of competition when the EU market is opened up to all European airlines next month.In energy, where liberalisers have faced formidable opposition from state-owned monopolies, part of the electricity market is to be liberalised over six years starting later this year; competition in gas may follow.
They are only the most recent in a line of officials who have single-mindedly promoted the interests of Japanese business -- particularly those of the mighty Nippon Telegraph and Telephone, by many measures Japan's most formidable company and long its telephone monopoly.
Local telephone service, where AT&T brooks the most formidable challenge to the country's three regional near-monopolies, would be hurt most.
Such a party would certainly be a formidable force, dominant in local government as well as in national government, with a virtual monopoly of campaigning skills: perhaps, for a while, importing into Britain something like the dominant-party democratic system that obtains in Japan.But that too is unlikely to happen.
He said that the regional Bell companies were interested only in extending their local monopolies into long-distance and high-speed Internet service, and that they had flexed formidable lobbying and legal muscle as part of that effort.
China also faces formidable difficulties in dealing with widespread corruption, a sclerotic political system, severe environmental damage, inefficient state-owned monopolies and other problems.
