Sentence examples for time monopoly from inspiring English sources

LAGOS — For the first time, Monopoly, the American board game, has been customized for Lagos, Nigeria's commercial capital.

At the same time monopoly behavior through a backdoor is not acceptable.

"We have a 25-year multibillion-dollar prime-time monopoly in animation that has worked great," said Fox's chairman for entertainment, Kevin Reilly.

In 2004, Las Vegas Sands opened the first casino in Macao after the long-time monopoly was liberalized in 2001.

The foremost objective of the reform was to liberate the marketing policy in the sector by breaking the long-time monopoly being enjoyed by the NEPA.

But the Germans are more enthusiastic: in two years' time the monopoly in Germany, already down to 200 grams, is due to drop to 100, well below the limit in other European countries.

Also at that time the monopoly on international telecommunications services that long had been held by the semipublic Kokusai Denshin Denwa (KDD) was lifted; KDD subsequently was wholly privatized, and, after a series of mergers, was renamed KDDI Corporation.

Marx believed that this misery would increase, while at the same time the monopoly of capital would become a fetter upon production until finally "the knell of capitalist private property sounds.

He courted the Norwegian peasants and at the same time gave monopolies on trade and timber exports to restricted numbers of merchants.

Two-time British Monopoly champion Mike Grabsky welcomed the change: "Whilst it would somewhat sad to see one of the original tokens disappear, it is probably time for an update.

The result has been a series of messy and expensive court battles, and growing doubts about the effectiveness of patent systems as a spur to innovation, just as their importance should be getting bigger (see article).In 1998 America introduced so-called "business-method" patents, granting for the first time patent monopolies simply for new ways of doing business, many of which were not so new.