Sentences with phrase «near monopoly of»

Nissan knows it can't truly disrupt Ford, Chevrolet and Ram's near monopoly of the American...

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By the same token, it's easy to hate on the top dog — and let's face it, that's what Apple is in consumer tech (it has near - monopoly status with iPods, iTunes and iPads; has the top - selling smartphone by far despite Android's collective market share leadership; and is on the verge of finally conquering Microsoft in computers).

Ukraine has borne the brunt of Russia's near - monopoly of gas supplies to Europe over the years.

(Italian eyewear maker Luxxotica, which owns retailers Lenscrafters, Pearle Vision and Eyemed, as well as almost every glasses brand you've ever heard of, holds a near monopoly over the industry.)

It's a for - profit company that talks like a non-profit, consistently declines opportunities to make tons of cash, and yet somehow has managed to disrupt an industry that for decades enjoyed near - monopoly status and double digit profit margins.

Its brand has become synonymous with Kleenex and other household products when it comes to fighting deadly allergies; in fact, the EpiPen enjoys a near - monopoly on the market with annual sales of more than $ 1.3 billion and nearly 90 % U.S. market share in the space.

Match Group, which already owns Tinder, Match.com and OkCupid, further cemented its near - monopoly on love (or hook - ups, at least) with the purchase of Vancouver's PlentyOfFish Media for $ 575 million.

Mylan, already the most dominant maker of epinephrine auto - injectors, now enjoys a near - monopoly on the market since Auvi - Q's withdrawal: After the recall, EpiPen's market share immediately jumped from 85 % to 95 % at the end of last year.

WhatsApp leads globally and in countries with expensive SMS rates like India; Line dominates in Japan; KakaoTalk has been downloaded by 93 % of South Korea's smartphone users; WeChat has a near monopoly in China.

And, it is interesting in light of the revelation that Google and Facebook have a near - monopoly on digital advertising, that a recent report from Wells Fargo Securities and Optimal showed that consumers trust Google and Facebook least of all with their data.

It has also been a principle that has led to Amazon, which has a near monopoly on e-commerce, losing tons of money on its retail business.

Beijing has substantive tools at its disposal: gargantuan foreign exchange reserves, close control over the conduits of domestic finance, a current account surplus and a near - monopoly on yuan assets held on shore.

Not only is China the US's only supplier of consumer fireworks, it has a near - monopoly on a global scale.

Google's near - monopoly status has drawn the ire of many politicians and pundits; together with Facebook and others, the firm is also grappling with accusations of abetting election interference and terrorism.

Bollore runs a company with a market value of $ 14.7 billion that has a near - monopoly on ports in West and Central Africa.

It does not seem natural that one party should have a near - monopoly on the allegiance of the grown - ups.

The evangelical - moralist sector has gained access to the White House, the Supreme Court, the Congress; it has a near - monopoly on mass media religion news, popular religion, the production of religious celebrities; it makes clear its positions on what it calls social issues, and is engaged in calling for constitutional amendments and new laws and in protests in the public squares.

In Dave Eggers's The Circle (a 2013 novel and 2017 movie), set in the near future, an eponymous social media monopoly embodying the worst elements of Apple, Google, and Facebook combined prepares to restructure the American electoral process.

Even the poorest northerner could have a rakish sense of empty power, a near - monopoly of his elite, which nevertheless has condemned him to the poorest of the poor among Nigerians.

Besides this, it deprives Russia from the most strong political instrument of pressure and influence over the EU because as of now it has near - monopoly on supplying the EU with fossil fuel.

In the aftermath of the June 1967 War, America arrogated to itself a near - monopoly over the diplomacy surrounding the Arab - Israeli conflict.

So in the absence of state policing organs and monopoly of law enforcement by a single federal police which is starved of resources and bereft of capacity and modernity, a near - complete breakdown of law and order is the consequence!

For instance, he favours nationalisation of Britain's railways and some utilities over their present near - monopoly status, harbours a visceral hatred of many Tories, and has had several conversations with Labour MPs about wooing them over to the populist Momentum - style movement that he intends to launch in the coming months.

Not so long ago, China aggressively pursued cheaper means of isolating rare earths, benefiting from the absence of costly environmental regulations, which is how the country acquired its current near - monopoly.

In each case, advances came at the expense of vested interests that had long exercised with near monopoly power.

We're often accused of being hostile to the regular public - school system, but our real gripe is with its near - monopoly — which leaves it free to keep on serving the interests of its «stakeholders» rather than the students.

The current Chrysler Pacifica and its myriad of features does a good job of that, but the Honda Odyssey was Japan's first volley at the American / Italian automaker's near monopoly on the segment, and it has just struck again.

After the discontinuation of the Chevrolet Caprice, the Ford Motor Company held a near - monopoly on the market for police cruisers in the United States and Canada for over a decade, because the conventional rear - wheel drive, V8 power, and body - on - frame construction are advantageous for police use.

You don't think 65 % of the ebook market is approaching near monopoly levels... I don't know any power companies that have that percentage of the business or even phone companies any longer... wireless or otherwise.

So, in the name of antitrust, the level playing field of the past two years — agency model e-books were priced the same whether sold by Amazon, Barnes & Noble or independent bookstores — will likely revert to a situation where a near - monopoly power determines pricing and most other retailers see their already - smaller market share shrink.

The long view Those that take the longer view fear that the decisions we make today — and the concessions we agree to — will forge the future of all independent authored content, even if Amazon doesn't become a near or true monopoly.

Audible has had a near monopoly for over the past decade, but newer entrants such as Google, Kobo and Walmart are looking to erode some of the market share.

Traditional publishers enjoy a near - monopoly of their products in franchised and independent book stores because of the deals they can make regarding return of product, discounted prices, and the fear books store owners harbor over Amazon's expanding influence over the market place.

Among the many reasons Stallman gives for boycotting Amazon are that the company sells ebooks and digital music that deprives customers of their rights through restrictive licensing, that the Amazon Kindle - or Swindle, as he calls it - uses proprietary software and contains backdoors through which Amazon can delete books and update software, that the company reportedly abuses its employees by making them work in sweatshops, and that it hurts independent bookstores, small publishers, and authors through its near - monopoly power.

Computers dropped the production and distribution costs of the art form to point where the newspaper syndicates and the Big 2 near - monopolies were broken, and BOOM — genre diversification.

Amazon has a near monopoly in the U.S. in terms of e-readers.

Amazon have, thanks to publishers like Hachette's short - sighted insistence on DRM, attained a near - monopoly on ebooks, having something like 80 % of the market.

But eventually every (near) monopoly ends up as a flabby rent - seeker to the disadvantage of others in the value chain.

It's the classic behavior of a bully with a near - monopoly on the market.

Amazon is nowhere near a monopoly and hasn't shown any evidence of practicing the behaviors you think will happen in the future.

After all, the point where the rubber hits the road for monopolies or near - monopolies is not whether they exist, but whether they use their monopolistic power to control the marketplace to the detriment of other parties.

Indigo's CEO Heather Reisman says, in an affidavit, that the settlement threatens to give Amazon a monopoly or near monopoly over the sale of ebooks in Canada.

With this monopoly or near - monopoly they can dictate terms to publishers or dictate what gets published: Amazon is great at selling certain kinds of books but not others (trade paperbacks, lit fiction that needs «discovery»; mid list from writers who lack a social media or publicity «platform»), and the more Amazon dominates the market, the less viable it becomes to publish books in those categories.

That is how Amazon is acting now, and so people are valuing it on the hope that when is gets to maturity, it will be an actual near - monopoly, having a lot of power to raise margins with impunity.

Ironically, our profession used to have a near monopoly on the power of the veterinary recommendation.

We don't need to tell you about how fashionable the theme of the occult is these days — just look at the young adult section in bookstores, turn on your television, or go to the movies, where werewolves, vampires, and other otherworldly beings have a near monopoly.

The existing land line telephone system, its infrastructure, regulations, the entire industrial halo of the telephone corporations (a near monopoly, despite the failed trust busting attempt of an earlier era) stifled and constrained North American mobile phone adoption, short - sighted governments taxed infant cell companies rather than freeing them of the uphill struggle they faced, and as a result, the average North American is backwards compared to the average denizen of an emerging economy when it comes to mobile life.

And what explains your dogged unwillingness to see the obvious effect of this near - monopoly of funding, and the unavoidable vested interest involved in this «research»?

While Quicklaw has been dramatically improved since it was acquired by LexisNexis Butterworths, nothing can halt the decline in revenue that has resulted from the loss of its near monopoly position in the Canadian market.

Others involved in the deal say the battle has become bitter because the contract could end the near - monopoly of state insurance companies on AI's business.