1.   Playing on the defense are telephone companies and cable television companies, providers that have enjoyed monopoly positions for Decades.

2.   The privatised boards have given themselves an inbuilt incentive to exploit their monopoly position.

3.   There has been an enormous and very genuine outcry over the vast sums it has made from a virtual monopoly position.

4.   This monopoly position is therefore totally beyond criticism.

5.   Those suppliers of heavy materials and goods will easily survive, because they have a monopoly position.

6.   Public sector trade unions have been extraordinarily successful in gaining advantages for themselves in the pay hierarchy by exploiting their monopoly collective bargaining position.

7.   But under antitrust law, companies with a monopoly position in a market are not supposed to abuse their power by chilling potential competition or innovation.

8.   Competitors such as Netscape Communications Corp. argue that Microsoft is using its monopoly position in the operating systems market to dominate in other areas, including Web browser software.

9.   Economists argue that premier sports leagues exploit their monopoly position by pitting one city against another to extract income from taxpayers, usually in the form of stadium subsidies.

10.   His decision came in response to a Justice Department complaint that contends Microsoft used its monopoly position in computer operating systems to unfairly compete in the Internet software market.