| Descriptive signs belong to public domain: They must remain available to everyone equally and may not be monopolized. |
| Aggressive clan warlords monopolized political power by controlling food distribution, coercing followers through the delivery or denial of food. |
| Individuals of the worker caste are usually effectively sterile, and reproduction is monopolized by the queen caste. |
| They were short of land, monopolized as it was by capitalist farmers and aged peasants. |
| Company ships armed to fight pirates also defeated trading rivals and monopolized foreign trade. |
| The Trade Bureau monopolized the procurement, sale and export of industrial and agricultural products. |
