Dirk Pitt has to stop an evil CEO of an oil and natural gas company in the US from establishing absolute monopoly over oil resources and supplies.
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However, the KS held a " de facto " absolute monopoly on political power, and the other parties within the National Front were little more than auxiliaries.
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Paradoxically, the visible problems of the Postal Service in competitive markets are probably less threatening to its long-term viability than the subtler problems of sustaining its absolute monopoly on nonurgent letters.
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Mark Urnov, who heads the Expertise Foundation think tank, said he fears the Yukos affair could mark a step toward an " absolute monopoly of the state on the economy and politics ."
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"She sees both sides of these issues and is trying to find workable solutions that provide incentives for people to invest in intellectual property but don't give them absolute monopolies over the work they create ."
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The harvests were further increased due to the fact that no tribe had an absolute monopoly near any trade and most of them were competing against each other to derive the maximum benefit from the presence of the English and the French.
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This year the Chinese government doubled its quota of Hollywood films allowed into the country annually _ to 20 from 10 _ and relaxed rules that awarded one quasi-private company, the China Film Group, an absolute monopoly over the importation and distribution of foreign films.
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In spite of their great contribution to Iranian artifacts specially in such places as Susa, France's insistence on its absolute monopoly would lead to other foreign powers being involved in Iran and the development of resentment by the secular Iranian intellectuals who did not want Iran's history broken up and exported.
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This exclusive right of use is a true and absolute monopoly, and is granted in derogation of the common right, and this right to monopolize the use of the invention or discovery is the substantial property right conferred by law, and which the public is under obligation to respect and protect.
