Sentence examples for outright monopoly from inspiring English sources

Iterations of some of these businesses once had either dominant market share or outright monopoly, but today most compete for inches, not yards.

But he has had a lot of help from the government.As with the banks, Mr Salinas privatised Telmex badly: the new owners were granted an outright monopoly for six years.

The commission said that Ryanair and Aer Lingus had strengthened their positions in the Irish market since the commission refused the previous deal in 2007, and that the merger would have created an "outright monopoly" on 28 short-distance routes serving Ireland.

The most influential antitrust thinkers of the Reagan era believed in scrutinizing closely only mergers between direct competitors and then only if the mergers resulted in an outright monopoly.

A number of top military companies, she shows, were granted outright monopolies, which wiped out competitive civilian companies.

But not everyone agrees that industrial concentration necessarily acts against the interests of the consumer, particularly in the absence of outright monopolies or cartels.

Rep. Bill Flores (R-Texas) stated outright that Facebook operates as a monopoly just like Standard Oil and Ma Bell, the nickname for the telephone giant that began as Bell Telephone and ended as AT&T.

In a legal deposition released Monday, Ballmer said that the software behemoth would simply have to withdraw its monopoly operating system from the market outright, if a court imposes the harsh sanctions being sought by nine of the states in the antitrust case.

Outright mergers between the former European state-run monopolies may well be put on hold until the respective governments sell off their stakes.

There is even a case – whisper it softly – for outright public ownership of companies if they are natural monopolies.

"We can find better mechanisms to finance research than patent monopolies, which give incentives for secrecy, deception and outright fraud".