Translation of "Machtmonopol" in English

Hardliners, who refused to give up their monopoly on power, won.

It is afraid that they will try to take away its power monopoly....

In such a kind of order, the national states lose their monopoly of power.

The medical doctors‘ class’ monopoly stands or falls with the trust the patient has in the doctor.

They understood that along with the monopoly of property, the monopoly of power must also disappear.

In Poland, where it could be said that the ruling party has an overall majority in every governing body, a monopoly of power, where it controls government, the Senate, the President, the National Broadcasting Authority, the body which oversees the media, and finally has control over public broadcasting and the support of the largest electronic media corporations, journalists are being thrown out of their jobs for the simple reason that they hold conservative, right-wing views.

One commentator even believes that the Chinese Communist Party' s monopoly on power will be broken because membership of the World Trade Organisation means freedom of communication, including by means of unchecked Internet contacts.

It would be better to push China, to demand that it and its leading communist class relinquish their monopoly on power, their violent monopoly over tens, even hundreds of millions of people. Such violence is the reason behind the tens of thousands of political prisoners - and these are official figures.

Peace and democracy will only truly be achieved in Angola when the monopoly of power is brought to an end and the diversity of political opinion can be expressed without hesitation or fear, when power is made truly democratic and when there is a fair and equitable distribution of resources.

Although the country has opened up economically, it has not relinquished its monopoly on power in favour of a democratic system.

It reduces our dependence on non-EU countries, it breaks the power monopoly of the energy giants and it leads not only to huge innovation but also to more new jobs, about a million of them.

Within these systems not only was there a monopoly of power, but also one of language, which was turned into a tool of propaganda and terror.

We felt the same thing once again in Cancún in relation to the African states involved, and that feeling has even to some extent reached the G21 countries, who of course also attempted to mount a kind of revolt and to break this monopoly of power between Europe and the United States and perhaps also other nations.

Those who monopolize power cannot imagine a world released from their grip as anything but a catastrophe.

No wonder, then, that Lee was so much admired by autocrats everywhere who dream of combining their monopoly on power with the creation of great wealth.

This is because the Chinese Communist Party’s monopoly on power can be justified only by continued rapid economic growth, without which workers and farmers will lose their jobs, and the urban middle classes their chance of increasing prosperity.

Opposition parties found their feet, and the PDP’s power monopoly was finally broken – but not obliterated.

Although al-Qaeda and the Taliban are united in their desire to expel Western troops from Afghanistan and reestablish a strict Islamic government in which they enjoy a monopoly of political and religious power, some Taliban leaders might accept more moderate goals.

China's leadership plays up this "revolutionary" commitment, for it helps generate nationalist sentiment, one of the few things (besides strong economic performance) that legitimizes the Communist monopoly on power.

Communism, as a ruling ideology, disappeared in Russia and has become so diluted in capitalist China that little more than its symbolic trappings – and a Leninist party with a monopoly on power – remain.

Morales says he's bringing an end to a monopoly of power in the province (which was led by Sala and her association until now).

Whereas economic reforms are still in an embryonic stage, constitutional reforms in the last three years have abolished the Communist Party's monopoly on power and moved Soviet society towards democracy and the rule of law.

Led by James Otis, Jr. and Oxenbridge Thacher, the anti-Parliament faction seized on every minor dispute to rail against Hutchinson and his faction's monopolisation of power.

In December the Communist Party of Lithuania seceded from the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and agreed to give up its monopoly on power.