8 sentences with 'monopolies'
Example sentences and phrases with the word monopolies and other words derived from it.
• « The emperor's office also controlled imperial monopolies in key industries such as silk, which were hugely lucrative. »
• « From the 12th century onwards, the German town of Lubeck became the capital of the Hanseatic League, a group of trading towns that joined together to regulate trade and maintain monopolies on goods. »
• « Thus, monarchs granted monopolies on products and then taxed them, and frequently sold titles of nobility and state offices to the highest bidder (the Queen of Sweden doubled the number of noble families in ten years). »
• « Likewise, European states and the companies they supported worked diligently to establish monopolies in trade with various parts of the world. However, "monopolies" in this case only meant monopolies in trade to and from Europe. »
• « A common approach was to offer 'protection' from supposedly more rapacious European powers such as Portugal in exchange for trade monopolies in spice-producing regions. »
• « This, in turn, led to widespread piracy and conflict between the powers of Europe in their colonial territories, as they sought to seize profitable lands and assert their respective monopolies. »
• « His targets were monopolies and protectionist taxes and tariffs that limited trade between nations; Adam Smith argued that if states abandoned such burdensome practices, the market itself would increase wealth as if the general prosperity of the nation were raised by an "invisible hand". »
• « More than two-thirds of state revenues went to the military, even after Peter the Great instituted new taxes and royal monopolies. »