Sentence examples for partial monopolies from inspiring English sources

In 2011, Reuters reported that Makhlouf had total or partial monopolies in Syria's telecommunications, real estate, oil, airline, duty free, construction and import sectors.

so that the seller may be considered to have a partial monopoly.

A group of financiers agreed to lend the crown £1.2m in return for a partial monopoly on the issue of currency.

The theory produced the powerful conclusion that competitive industries, in which each seller has a partial monopoly because of product differentiation, will tend to have an excessive number of firms, all charging a higher price than they would if the industry were perfectly competitive.

He proposed that the primary existing incentive for commercial investment in pharmaceutical R&D a partial market monopoly afforded by patent protection underlies both problems in that the size of the incentive depends not on public health need but on market size, which is almost by definition small for NTDs, and that it works by increasing product prices.

Some bankers think it will become a blue-chip stock, as the biggest of the firms created amid the recent break-up and partial privatisation of UES, Russia's former power monopoly.But there are reasons for caution.

The French government announced an accelerated plan for the partial privatization of Électricité de France, the heavily indebted power monopoly, saying that it aimed to sell as much as 30percentt of the company next year.

That monopoly is threatened by the introduction of a new technology (Web software) that is a partial substitute -- and, in time -- could become a complete substitute for the monopoly product".

More recently, left-wing activists marched against the partial privatisation, through a public offering, of Egat, the state-owned electricity monopoly.

This work (the Swedish part of the study) was supported by the Joint Committee for Nordic Research Councils for the Humanities and the Social Sciences (NOS-HS, project 20071), the US National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (R01 and14879) and partial funding for the 2003 data collection from Systembolaget (the Swedish alcohol monopoly).

The U.S.F.L., which claimed that the N.F.L. had established a monopoly and persuaded television networks not to broadcast U.S.F.L. games, won a partial victory but was awarded only $1 in damages.