When the state is incapable of protecting its own citizens, it loses its monopoly on violence.

The Kremlin s Failing Monopoly

There would still be a need for regulation, especially where monopoly or near monopoly is involved.

The CCP s monopoly of public moral authority is long gone, and now its monopoly of political power is at risk as well.

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Breaking the Neoclassical Monopoly in Economics

Finally, the Francophone approach relies on two types of monopoly.

A monopoly is like running on firm ground.

The second monopoly is exercised in the banking sector.

Later this monopoly would be enforced by the Papal bulls Dum Diversas (1452) and Romanus Pontifex (1455), granting Portugal the trade monopoly for the newly discovered lands.

The near monopoly of power once enjoyed by sovereign entities is being eroded.

Genoa replaced Venice in the monopoly of commerce with the Black Sea territories.

As a result, the ANC s monopoly on legitimacy is loosening.

It's also used in things like McDonald's Monopoly, where the game is not the Monopoly game you're playing, but the sort of cottage industries that form to try and find Boardwalk, right.

American, British, and French oil companies enjoyed a virtual monopoly of Nigeria s oil industry.

Business monopoly in some sectors causes higher profit bookings and further raising of prices.

Hardliners, who refused to give up their monopoly on power, won.

We do not claim a monopoly of wisdom in the field of disarmament, nuclear or otherwise.

And Ayatollah Khomeini challenged the Al Saud s ideological monopoly and control of Mecca and Medina.

To be fair, such an existential philosophy was not the right s monopoly.

Novi Sad has also become our candidate, on the additional Monopoly list.

NicolasSehnaoui MoNajem The law that gives casino du liban monopoly over gambling.

JAL also had a flag carrier monopoly on international routes until 1986.

But this regulation, when combined with China s aggressive pricing, suggests a desire to assert monopoly control, and the de facto ban of rare earth exports to Japan looks like an effort to test the benefits of this looming monopoly.

No country or group of countries should be permitted to have a monopoly of these devastating weapons.

It wasn t terror that was the basis of Stalin s power, but his complete monopoly on information.

One way to combat mercenarism was for Governments to retain the monopoly of public security functions.

Having a virtual monopoly on supply, Russia decided that it could dictate prices.

But, for Khamenei, nuclear concessions might also undermine his monopoly over domestic politics.

But the key point was that the party s monopoly on power was jettisoned.

A separate US legal case has underscored one of the main dangers of patent driven monopoly power corruption.

At least since 1989, the legitimacy of the Chinese Communist Party s monopoly on power has been fragile.

So, if a monopoly is restricting output and raising prices, regulate firms and industries.

Russia s main foreign policy instrument in Georgia is Gazprom, the state controlled gas monopoly.

By suppressing internal rivals and absorbing their assets, the regime created a dual monopoly.

SOEs will lose their low interest loans, subsidized land, monopoly protection, and privileged housing.

First, scientific and technological achievements are the common heritage of humanity and are not the monopoly of some nations.

You had a monopoly supplier. On the left, you have Rupert Murdoch, or the BBC.

A monopoly is poison for a market economy, because it increases prices and decreases volume.

Nor does the Middle East have a monopoly on Islamist extremism, ethnic tension, or terrorism.

The Solidarity union that was born in 1980 broke the Communist Party s monopoly on power.

Thus, what only a few months ago had looked from Washington like a successful transition to some sort of representative government is obviously a travesty just as under Saddam, power today grows out of the barrel of the gun only now the state does not hold a monopoly on the means of violence.

The massive monopoly will be split into two arms, with its administrative powers coming under the Ministry of Transport.

The system is operated under a monopoly by Cable and Wireless Ltd., which has a number of Caribbean franchises.

You guys called for the ending of the Ministry of Railways now a shiny monopoly of state owned enterprise is born.