Nowadays, the government no longer monopolizes information and the right to process it.

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

وانطلق بديع في كلمته أنهم يرون الأقباط شركاء في هذا الوطن وأن المواطنة لدي الجماعة أساس المشاركة الكاملة والمساواة في الحقوق والواجبات مؤكدا أن يدينون كل أنواع العنف الطائفي The leader confirmed that the group is just a Muslim group, and not a group for Muslims, and it is not the sole representative of Islam

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

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).

But Ukraine has a virtual monopoly on delivery, so Russia blinked in this standoff as soon as gas supplies to Western Europe dropped.

But no ethnic group monopolizes such pathologies, and all people should be equal before the law.

For the 20 years that the patent lasts, they will have a monopoly on the drug s sale and be able to command a high price.

Manager of Butembo Airlines (BAL), which has a virtual monopoly on air traffic between Butembo and Mongbwalu (Province Orientale), where his agents purchase gold for his account

It is the turn of someone from outside Europe to head the IMF Europe having had a monopoly on the position since the Fund was created following World War II.

Responding to the representative of the Netherlands, he said that UNHCR did not have a monopoly on protection, which, while a key element, was delivered more effectively through partnerships.

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

In particular, they object to the plan s proposal to give increased powers and responsibilities to the Secretary General, whose selection is effectively in the hands of the Security Council s five permanent members, which wield veto power.

Roosevelt never thought that staffs had a monopoly on judgment or information, and has been described as seeking advice from anybody he could cabinet members, congressmen, newspaper columnists, interest groups, citizens, and friends.

In a speech marking the state gas monopoly Gazprom s tenth anniversary in 2003, Putin stated his position explicitly, speaking of the company as one of the few strong geopolitical levers left to Russia after the Soviet collapse. Putin s geopolitical preoccupations could be accommodated by sensibly preserving state ownership of pipeline infrastructure in the hydrocarbons sector, while allowing private companies to extract, process, and sell Russia s oil and gas.

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.