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

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

Many have attributed the site s problems to the corruption at China s railway authority, a state owned monopoly.

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

The Kremlin s Failing Monopoly

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

Mubarak still commands disproportionate assets name recognition, a virtual monopoly on state controlled electronic media and some 85 of the print media.

A well ordered modern state is defined by a monopoly on the legitimate use of force, which allows domestic markets to operate.

But when Gazprom, the Russian state gas monopoly, followed Putin s instructions to turn off the spigot to Ukraine, Russia crossed a new threshold.

Despite controlling the world s largest gas reserves, Russia s state owned monopoly Gazprom is not producing enough for an economy growing at 6 a year.

A well ordered modern state is one that holds a monopoly on the legitimate use of force, and that allows domestic markets to operate.

Bloggers in the neighboring Kyrgyzstan were also cut off particularly, those whose ISPs use the facilities of KazakhTelecom, the Kazakhstan's state owned telecom monopoly.

Breaking the Neoclassical Monopoly in Economics

As for legal measures on explosives, their import and sale are governed by a State monopoly granted to the Ministry of Mines, Energy and Hydraulics (MMEH).

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

By disarming any remaining militias, Abbas could claim what Max Weber called the necessary ingredient of any state, namely a monopoly of the legitimate use of force.

A monopoly is like running on firm ground.

a monopoly over the use of legitimate force

The second monopoly is exercised in the banking sector.

Point five, which was preceded by confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels, was centralization of credit in the hands of the State, by means of a national bank with State property and an exclusive monopoly.

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.

Mr. Boolell (Mauritius), replying to question 21, said that the Independent Broadcasting Authority had been created after the dissolution of the State monopoly, to ensure fair and ethical broadcasting practices.

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

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

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

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.

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

Frequent and direct security coordination, in addition to the implementation of confidence building measures, would assist President Abbas in his efforts to establish control and exercise the effective monopoly on the use of force that is a chief characteristic of State and proto State authorities.

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.

The report of the United States Department of State probably had to do with the previous monopoly of Government owned radio prior to the liberalization of the airwaves under the Independent Broadcasting Authority Act.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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