Sentence examples for made a monopoly from inspiring English sources

The production and sale of silk was made a monopoly of the crown.

During its formative period it was found necessary to murder federal agents and local officials and to wipe out several hundred people who sought to introduce competition into what nature had made a monopoly.

Colley Cibber wrote in his autobiography that the owners of the United Company, "who had made a monopoly of the stage, and consequently presumed they might impose what conditions they pleased upon their people, did not consider that they were all this while endeavouring to enslave a set of actors whom the public… were inclined to support".

After decades of this Machiavellian palaver the Portuguese emerged as the top European player in the clove market, but they never really made it a monopoly.

The biggest tomb holds Ong Sam Leong, who died in 1917, having made a fortune out of his monopoly on the supply of coolie labour to phosphate mines on Christmas Island.Like many other graves, it is protected not just by statues of fierce beasts, golden boys and jade maidens, but also by models of imposing Sikh guards.

Today at Mark Zuckerberg's first of two hearings with Congress, the meme maker formerly known as the Monopoly Man made a surprise cameo in troll form to troll the Facebook founder.

But we are authors with a deep, collective experience in this field, and we agree with the authorities in economics and law who have asserted that Amazon's dominant position makes it a monopoly as a seller of books and a monopsony as a buyer of books".

More alarmist analysts think that doing nothing would kill the company and make Boeing a monopoly producer.But Mr Streiff's room for manoeuvre is constrained by politics.

For example, they found the large generators there are often in a position where their supply is necessary to meet the demand, making them a monopoly supplier.

It makes elections a monopoly of the major parties, by giving their candidates an enormous advantage — the advantage of an endorsement right there on the ballot — over everyone else who runs.

Equipped with only a battered board and a willingness to ask total strangers to shake his dice, he tells the story of the 28 streets, stations and utilities that make up a Monopoly set by touring their real-life equivalents.