Sentences with phrase «largest public monopoly»

Education, in contrast, is by and large a public monopoly.

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But there is also the reality of monopoly, exercised by large corporate interests which keep the public from knowing what is going on in their own society.

I am not persuaded that government on a large scale can be sensitive enough to human freedom, creativity and needs to justify a public monopoly over economic institutions.

Through large - scale civil disobedience projects, augmented reality mobile apps, and an ongoing studio practice, Seiler's work questions the monopoly of consumer media on our shared public spaces while creating new opportunities for public communications.

Florida Power & Light, like most other monopoly electric utilities, spends this large sum on the usual suspects: lobbying and public relations.

Both solutions will occur because the power of the news media and of the internet, interacting, will quickly make widely known these types of information, the cumulative effect of which will force governments and the courts to act: (1) the situations of the thousands of people whose lives have been ruined because they could not obtain the help of a lawyer; (2) the statistics as to the increasing percentages of litigants who are unrepresented and clogging the courts, causing judges to provide more public warnings; (3) the large fees that some lawyers charge; (4) increasing numbers of people being denied Legal Aid and court - appointed lawyers; (5) the many years that law societies have been unsuccessful in coping with this problem which continues to grow worse; (6) people prosecuted for «the unauthorized practice of law» because they tried to help others desperately in need of a lawyer whom they couldn't afford to hire; (7) that there is no truly effective advertising creating competition among law firms that could cause them to lower their fees; (8) that law societies are too comfortably protected by their monopoly over the provision of legal services, which is why they might block the expansion of the paralegal profession, and haven't effectively innovated with electronic technology and new infrastructure so as to be able to solve this problem; (9) that when members of the public access the law society website they don't see any reference to the problem that can assure them that something effective is being done and, (10) in order for the rule of law, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and the whole of Canada's constitution be able to operate effectively and command sufficient respect, the majority of the population must be able to obtain a lawyer at reasonable cost.

Following her study of paralegals several years later, Paula Pevato observed that there was «substantial evidence... suggest [ing] that the legal profession's hostility toward paralegals is motivated, to a large degree, by a self - serving desire to maintain a monopoly over the delivery of legal services to the public.»

Their are real economic incentive issues when it comes to the collective bargaining power of lobbyists and large business entities, public common spaces like parks and monuments, and natural monopolies.

There are far larger targets than us (oil industry, cola companies, Ticket sales for events (a total monopoly by one firm)-RRB- but we are the public target of choice.