Sentence examples for supposed monopoly from inspiring English sources

John Robins agreed, strongly challenging Stewart Lee's supposed monopoly on the idea of "alternative".

The CCIA's central complaint against IBM is that it holds back the sale of its mainframe software to other IT companies whenever it perceives a threat to its supposed monopoly.

[Spoiler alert if you didn't read the newspapers in 2011]: Scored by a barrage of victorious brass music, Judge Chin announces that he rejects the settlement, preventing Google's supposed "monopoly," and all the interviewed pundits rejoice.

Or so critics of Microsoft and Intel used to say, citing the two firms' supposed love of monopoly profits and dead rivals.

Same with, say, Monopoly.

But although the monopoly is not supposed to expire until 2006, the company is already negotiating to give it up in return for some form of "compensation".

In the beginning, the patricians were supposed to have enjoyed a monopoly of power (the consulship, the Senate, and all religious offices), whereas the plebeians began with nothing except the right to vote in the assemblies.

The supposed threat that antitrust efforts combat is monopoly.

Private media outlets like Al-Masry Al-Youm were supposed to have rescued Egypt from the state's monopoly, but they had each fallen into their own patterns, inside clear red lines.

If an invention couldn't be self-financed in a garage, he supposed, it needed a research lab in a bureaucratic monopoly.

All that was supposed to change in 1990, when the state sold the monopoly to Telefonos de Mexico, or Telmex, with a promise to promote efficiency and a competitive spirit in the industry.