Sentence examples for practical monopoly from inspiring English sources

The particular requirement before us was evidently not imposed to prevent a practical monopoly of the business, since its tendency is quite to the contrary.

Under the regulatory compact that applies to all publicly regulated but privately owned utilities, PG&E has been granted a practical monopoly to provide a public service to any customer who wants it.

The act specifically aimed at reserving a practical monopoly of the American sugar market to British West Indies sugarcane growers, who otherwise could not compete successfully with French and other foreign sugar producers on more-fertile neighbouring West Indian islands.

Microsoft, in particular, built up a practical monopoly that lasted nearly twenty years, and forced an entire industry to conform to its way of seeing the world.

"China runs a virtual monopoly.

Although Fetter was widely known for his theoretical and practical work on industrial monopoly, his major theoretical contributions involved the development of a capital theory that emphasized time preference rather than physical productivity and a distribution theory based upon a generalization of the rent concept.

Keen maintained that although anyone can access information and participate in the new economy, the practical result has been monopolies from big companies and the destruction of much of the middle class.

Monopoly is a practical demonstration of the way in which capitalism doesn't just grab land but minds; appropriating its critics and turning counter-culture into consumer culture.

These are virtual regional monopolies.

Look, for all practical purposes, telecommunications is still a monopoly.

As a practical matter, unions are seen as having two faces a monopoly face and a collective voice face so that the net effect is always an empirical question.