In early April, he accused banks of reaping easy profits, and called for breaking up the monopoly held by the country's biggest lenders.
It passed into theatrical usage in the early 18th century to describe a device employed by professional actors to circumvent the dramatic monopoly held by the Comédie-Française.
It may be hard for them to raise more capital after Prime Minister Wen Jiabao called for breaking up the monopoly held by the country's biggest lenders.
The approval breaks the monopoly held by Biogen, the maker of Avonex, under a government program meant to encourage research into treatments for uncommon diseases.
Cohn also filed a suit brought by the United States Football League in 1984 against the NFL, seeking to break up the monopoly held over American football.
In Argentina, a new media law seeks to break up the media monopoly held by the Clarín Group, which according to press reports controls 60% of the media.
It would break a domestic monopoly held by USEC Inc., formerly the United States Enrichment Corporation, which runs an Atomic Energy Commission plant in Paducah, Ky., that was privatized in July 1998.
That would have marked the end of an extraordinary boom that began in 2004 when the Las Vegas Sands Corporation broke a gambling monopoly held for decades by Mr Ho's father, Stanley.
It has also become the gambling center of China, especially since the early 2000s, when the government broke up a monopoly held by a local gambling magnate, Stanley Ho, and allowed foreign investors to build casinos.
He established trade and diplomatic relations with Spain, effectively breaking the monopoly held since 1585 by the Barbary Company, which had been formed by British merchants to control foreign trade.
