Sentence examples for monopolized by a from inspiring English sources

In the Cornell University Library it could not be monopolized by a single faction.

Over the subsequent 70 years, the industry shifted from being comprised of number of independently owned and operated operations to being monopolized by a single regional conglomerate.

Unlike in America, where small and medium-size companies have created the shale industry, the work in China is being monopolized by a handful of big state players.

But, with American acquiescence, the legislature was monopolized by a small group of élite landowners, bolstering the power of an oligarchy that continues to dominate political life.

The large number of waterfalls bought by Norwegian and foreign companies gave rise to grave concern that the country's natural resources were falling into foreign hands or becoming monopolized by a small number of capitalists.

While higher clerical positions continued to be monopolized by a group of prominent Istanbul ulema families in the mid-17th century, places in the secular bureaucracies were being apportioned largely according to political patronage.

But for generations, political power in Saudi Arabia has been monopolized by an extended royal family.

Power is not monopolized by any one individual or branch of government, even though a national leader may claim a popular mandate.

By 1910 Baekland had a semicommercial production operation established in his laboratory, and in 1911 General Bakelite began operations in Perth Amboy, N.J., U.S. In a plastics market virtually monopolized by celluloid, a highly flammable material that dissolved readily and softened with heat, Bakelite found ready acceptance because it could be made insoluble and infusible.

Many of its most talented thinkers and organizers were women, and their frustration at seeing formal leadership roles monopolized by men was a catalyst for the second-wave feminism of the 1970's.

Communal resources that benefit the entire group, yet can not be monopolized by one or a few individuals are known as 'public goods' (Rankin et al. [2007]).