Sentence examples for national monopoly from inspiring English sources
"This animal is still considered a national asset and a national monopoly," said Pushkinsky's general director, Yevgeny N. Kazakov.
Kreuger would, he said (usually with great secrecy), lend money to countries that provided him with a national monopoly on match production.
The instruments of that policy include a national monopoly on retail sales of alcoholic beverages and a number of restrictions on advertising.
But China's rail system is a national monopoly that has not received the same investment lavished on highways by municipal and provincial governments.
In addition, the guidelines permit the commission to force a government to break up any national monopoly as punishment for granting illegal state aid to the company.
What persuades countries to tear down national monopolies?
But the extra competition they bring hits market share for companies used to cosy national monopolies.
With few exceptions, they are throwbacks, huge national monopolies that enjoy almost total protection from competition.
Flour millers that enjoy national monopolies have resisted free trade, for example.
The big, national monopolies that were privatised increasingly drew their customers outside national boundaries.
