If the state gives someone a powerful legal monopoly, then it should expect and demand something in return.

So profitable and powerful a monopoly, however efficiently administered, could not last for long.

Which surely he did not: he was well up the ladder to the highest position in the most powerful monopoly in human space; what more could he want?

Experts differ on whether the crackdown on petition preparers is a valuable consumer protection or a restraint of trade by a powerful monopoly.

At the turn of the 20th century, "muckraking" journalists were stirring up public dissent against the powerful monopolies and wealthy industrialists who ruled the day.

The World Bank accord requires the Russians to introduce more competition in their gas and electrical sectors, which have been dominated by powerful monopolies.

PA is a useful organisation that is relied upon by many many newspapers and broadcasters, but it should not become an all powerful monopoly.

Both boats were owned by the powerful monopoly of the Oregon Steam Navigation Company.

Every March, college basketball fans have been primed to experience one of the world's most powerful monopolies - the N.C.A.A. tournament.

Would you go back to the illusion of so-called privacy laws, which only gave the rich and powerful a monopoly on secrecy?