1.   It also opened up the economy to foreign imports in order to increase competition and break up entrenched monopolies.

2.   But plans to jointly develop local phone service to compete with entrenched Bell monopolies have changed as a result of swiftly evolving technologies and industry regulations.

3.   Entrenched monopolies, labor-market rigidities, perverse management incentives and many other problems are pervasive.

4.   It was his way of saying, a century before Adam Smith codified the insight, that competition had a way of breaking up even the most entrenched monopolies.

5.   The entrenched monopolies that run large, dirty power plants are facing new competition from rivals with smaller and cleaner technologies at their command.

6.   The U.K. has opened its electricity and natural gas markets after years of government ownership and entrenched monopolies.

7.   Theodore Roosevelt took on entrenched monopolies, helping small businesses to thrive and competition to flourish.

8.   Trade liberalization and the dismantling of entrenched monopolies and cartels in transportation, communications and banking sectors led to years of steady growth in the former basketcase.

9.   It said modern technology would clash with entrenched monopolies and cartels in Asia, adding that technology could make many economic liberalisation measures irrelevant.