Sentences with phrase «near monopoly power»

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

Not exact matches

Not only are realtors facing new competition from people like Arora within their own ranks, but also deep - pocketed companies including Power Corp. are moving in on the for - sale - by - owner (FSBO) space, at long last creating a nationwide alternative to the MLS, which for years has been a near - monopoly marketplace.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Secondarily, the «insurers» are using their near - monopoly power to deny certain treatments to the insured end - user.

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

They simply have the power to break up alleged monopolys (or near monopolies) at will.