Mass slaughter, mass disruption and mass manipulation are no longer a state monopoly.

A corporate monopoly threatens democracy almost as much as a state monopoly does.

Radio Hauraki took to the seas to break the state monopoly on broadcasting.

Japan Tobacco is a former state monopoly still a third owned by the government.

For liberals, the idea of a state monopoly on force creates a real problem.

Under the reforms introduced by the elected government, the state monopoly on newspapers will end.

The unit had paid overly generous wages from the time it was a state monopoly.

Not the entire state monopoly will not be scrapped.

Ethiopia's huge and unexploited telecoms market is barred to all outside operators by a state monopoly.

Telmex, which emerged from a state monopoly in 1990, has an extensive web of infrastructure in Mexico.

The old state monopoly was no better.

EU: Sweden faced EU legal action yesterday for stopping people ordering liquor from abroad outside the state monopoly.

Foreign trade was a state monopoly.

Mexico's oil industry is dominated by state monopoly Pemex PEMX.UL and private companies have limited access to the market.

However, it still has to end the state monopoly in broadcasting and to repeal repressive laws around the media.

The state monopoly has not clearly signaled how it will regulate e-cigarettes -or whether it will sell them.