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According to the lawsuit, Amazon's list of infractions includes things like inflating prices and putting the squeeze on sellers with exorbitant fees, among other "unfair strategies to illegally maintain its monopoly power."
Source: https://hothardware.com/news/amazon-responds-ftc-lawsuit
A lawsuit was filed against the U.F.C.’s parent company in 2014 that accuses the company of having both an illegal monopoly and monopsony power, which is when a buyer of services faces little competition.
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/05/sports/jake-paul-mma-boxing.html
Also, though usually left unstated, is its desire to preserve America’s Asian predominance by maintaining its nuclear monopoly among friends.
Source: https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/01/17/us-south-korea-nuclear-weapons-denuclearization/
As for innovation, many of its products have been me-too copycats that became successful largely by piggybacking onto Microsoft’s worldwide laptop and desktop operating system monopoly of Windows.
Because UEFA operates as a monopoly in setting the rules, while also organising tournaments of its own such as the Champions League, its criteria for authorising rival competitions should be “transparent, objective, non discriminatory and proportionate”.
Source: https://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/uefa-bid-block-super-league-broke-eu-law.1074132
But for all their private meetings, the globalists would not have been able to build this hidden monopoly where they own everything, were it not for their control of the media.
Councillor Bill Prentice wondered if Freedom would have a monopoly on the tower location if there is a long time line.
Source: https://brooksbulletin.com/city-mpc-approves-telecom-towers-with-conditions/
Dr Haabazoka said, “Africa and Russia resolved to create a multipolar world where no one power had monopoly over other nations.
Everyone else will put their weight behind AMD because no one wants a monopoly, especially in AI.
Source: https://seekingalpha.com/article/4659482-amd-is-still-being-underestimated?source=feed_all_articles
For Lenin, however, imperialism was a stage, the latest stage, of capitalist development, the stage of monopoly capital that succeeded competitive capital.
Source: https://dissidentvoice.org/2023/01/review-of-russia-without-blinders/
He doesn’t have a monopoly on the long ball, though; the WooSox entered Friday with 158 home runs, tied for third in the International League.
His Citadel holding company was described as “almost a monopoly on the wiretapping of Russians”.
Source: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/23140310/putin-crony-dead-anton-cherepennikov/
His Move Forward Party has been a vocal critic of the military’s role in politics and monopoly in business sectors.
If we pay the worker to produce a book or movie or song, we don’t have to pay them a second time by granting them a copyright monopoly.
Source: https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/04/18/on-ai-and-intellectual-property-rights/
In 1598, the Marquis de La Roche was awarded a fur trading monopoly in the New World by the King of France.
In 2007, under President Yar’Adua’s visionary mandate to broaden Nigeria’s cement industry and break the monopoly in the sector, BUA was among the six companies selected and granted licenses.
In short, cost of living is an important voter issue, food is a big part of that, and no party holds a monopoly on an issue that voters want fixing - it's politically important to do something.
In this case, the world of is ruled by the Avalon Corporation and its monopoly over crude oil.
Is this not the “inevitable outcome of the PM’s decision to grant an airports monopoly to his friend Gautam Adani by handing him six out of six airports over the objections of the NITI Aayog and the Ministry of Finance”, the Congress leader asked.
“It is very imperative that we remind those who think highly of themselves and believe they will resort to violence and attack Biafrans that they do not have the monopoly of violence.