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The student government at my university was monopolized by students from the political science department.

The individual must not monopolize what is meant for the world.

As a result, environmental policy is monopolized by Democratic ideas.

The Russian monopolized her for the rest of the evening.

He was just plain monopolizing all the women in the world!

He had monopolized far too much of Virginia's society, anyway.

At dinner David monopolized a good deal of the conversation.

The real estate network had a history of being monopolized.

He would not allow me to monopolize his grandfather's company.

Once back in the news, she seemed intent on monopolizing it.

She knew I had come home to monopolize her while my father and two sisters were out of the house.

Other problems can occur, she said, when one person monopolizes discussion.

It can also consume families, monopolizing their time, money and energy.

It had suddenly come to him that he was monopolizing the conversation.

He also knew how to totally monopolize a lady's day off.

Would you allow a single organization to monopolize your food supply?

"No, they're going to stay with the little ones; we monopolize enough of their time as it is."

The company that can establish its system as the standard could monopolize the market.

If they can monopolize the market, they'll all make a lot of money."

It would have dominated, if not monopolized, trade and development in the new West.

These two guys have just about monopolized the machines in this place for the past few weeks.

Perhaps men long ago learned to monopolize the best jobs, and have since been able to make it stick.

But all the young ladies will be angry if I monopolize your time.

The school is also renowned for various activities, some of which they have monopolized.

This week the Israeli media cannot monopolize the flow of information.

The electronic media are almost totally monopolised by the authorities.

A man's powers ought not to be monopolised by his ordinary day's work.

The work of liberalising markets which were once monopolised goes on.

From 1947 to 1969 the exchange monopolised the market.

The truth was told by a second half in which they monopolised the ball and didn't make one opening.

It had monopolised power and put faith in itself.

Between them, they monopolised the media to the virtual exclusion of any other viewpoint.

Suppose the industry is now monopolised with (unrealistically) no change in costs.

Until then the competition had been monopolised by England and Scotland.

This immensely wealthy elite monopolised political, military and economic power in the empire.

Why have US conservatives, and not the left, monopolised political fury since the banks went down?

Furthermore, we could investigate whether he behaves likewise when there is no food source to be monopolised.

Knowledge should not be monopolised by management.

Today, Europeans have monopolised most of the lands with temperate wet climates.

"It is unacceptable that power be monopolised by a single family, even one to which we owe respect and consideration.

However, the question we must, as Europeans, ask is whether that vast array of knowledge and culture should be monopolised by one private American company.

The corporative association of butchers had monopolised the shops on the bridge since 1442.

Gradually, the jute business was monopolised by the more powerful and better-organised British firms.

Now the mother monopolised the baby.

The Union has ignored the fact that as a result of the bank's actions, banking services on the Polish market have become monopolised.

Our economy is in danger of becoming the latter, monopolised by a minority, serving narrow and sectional interests.

Trading in horses was an important and profitable business, monopolised by the Arabs and some local merchants.

This concern increased in the 1950s, as he saw that the arts were monopolised, homogenized, and of poor standard.

In addition, patricians monopolised certain priesthoods and continued to enjoy enormous prestige.

The Open narrative of the past 12 months has been monopolised by first Norman, then Watson.