Basically, even though the different sectors of the airline industry could be called oligopolistic, as a whole it's competitive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-04-01] Reference

Surely that kind of oligopolistic domination makes clear that it is not an activity normally undertaken by banks.    From Wordnik.com.  [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference

Surely that kind of oligopolistic domination of the market makes clear that it is not an activity normally undertaken by banks.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference

An oligopolistic market is the antithesis of a free market.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poli-Oligarchs] Reference

An oligopolistic ratings process helped contribute as well.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Should Mortgage Finance Look Like?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

Banks were already earning oligopolistic profits on mortgage spreads.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alan Schram: Low Interest Rates are Bonanza to the Banks] Reference

There are normally enormous barriers to entry into oligopolistic markets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anti Free Market Protests Planned] Reference

As a network of oligopolistic fiefdoms, however, it needed federal direction.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Non-Economist's Economist] Reference

The major bank-owned dealers would also have oligopolistic pricing privileges.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Extension of Bank Control in the Financial Services Industry] Reference

You are at the minimum a shill for the oligopolistic insurance industry. — blacklight.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Health Reform Group to Spend $40 Million - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference

As an example, it seems to me that many markets have a tendancy to become oligopolistic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anti Free Market Protests Planned] Reference

But the major victims of oligopolistic health-care pricing are the uninsured working class.    From Wordnik.com.  [Opaque Pricing Hurts the Uninsured] Reference

Yet, the large multinational corporations (MNCs) generally operate in oligopolistic markets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Social and environmental responsibility of corporations] Reference

That organization flourished in a less globalized, more oligopolistic, and slower moving world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matsushita Leadership] Reference

Media giants might just get their acts together and "finance a new oligopolistic push on the Web.".    From Wordnik.com.  [James Warren: This Week in Magazines: Drive-Through Mastectomies and Glenn Beck Gives Us Some Tongue] Reference

This is also recognized as oligopolistic government, and it is bad for America, bad for the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Bushonomics] Reference

Wednesday, June 17 2009 what we are seeing is the interplay of oligopolistic collusion, aka cartels.    From Wordnik.com.  [Netbook News: Rumble in the OS Jungle Comes Down to Price] Reference

Indeed, up to a point the 8 oligopolistic supplier can withhold its goods until it gets the price it wants.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chesterton and Capitalism Part One] Reference

The FTC concluded that zone pricing was made possible by the oligopolistic behavior of the big oil companies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Annals of Demagoguery] Reference

A competitive “fringe” of smaller firms can help curb excessive oligopolistic behaviour of “big business”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 6] Reference

They also endorse, and lobby heavily for, monopolistic and oligopolistic practices that limit or control the market.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Slayton: Libertarians, Conservatives, and Health Care] Reference

It goes to the heart of the interconnectedness problem that has been exacerbated by oligopolistic market domination.    From Wordnik.com.  [SAFER: Banks Must Be Barred from Dealing Derivatives: It's NOT a Normal Part of the Business of Banking] Reference

"The oligopolistic nature of the market worked," said ING's Mr. Rijk, because they adopted similar pricing strategies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sticky Price Hikes Help Beer Profits] Reference

Europe's strategy could not succeed because the EU runs a fragmented, nationalized and oligopolistic market for energy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Russia Divides and Rules Europe] Reference

Furthermore, oligopolistic market structures afforded American corporations leeway to pursue these additional objectives.    From Wordnik.com.  [Junk-Bond Finance] Reference

The role of the ACCC is critical in preventing monopolistic and oligopolistic rent seekers from subverting consumer interests.    From Wordnik.com.  [Liberalism and the Challenges of Building an Open Society - Speech from from the Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs] Reference

Also, because of the specialization required to deliver health care, the market in health care is intrinsically oligopolistic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Crisis, the Health Care Bill, and the Growth of Government] Reference

We may be "David" versus the oligopolistic rating "Goliath," but we welcome the competition as long as it can be on a level playing field.    From Wordnik.com.  [Competition Key to Better Ratings] Reference

It could on the one hand lead to general dominance, leading to a manipulation of advertising prices in a monopolistic or oligopolistic fashion.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

More convenient to complain that oligopolistic miners were profiteering off the weak negotiating position of a fragmented Chinese customer base.    From Wordnik.com.  [Re-Sourcing China's Resources] Reference

The more oligopolistic this market becomes, the more generic it becomes, and the less able it is to sustain the pretense of any meaningful differential advantage.    From Wordnik.com.  [consolidation continues - BlackBoard + WebCT & more ...] Reference

The local fabricator should, as far as possible, not be disadvantaged through oligopolistic pricing of inputs and South Africa's distance from alternative suppliers.    From Wordnik.com.  [DRAFT MINERAL & ENERGY POLICY] Reference

Mr. Cole wrote that he found "the liberal use of dissembling and obfuscation" disturbing and accused the banks of having "oligopolistic dominance" of the credit markets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Friction on Swaps Response] Reference

Regulators are hiding behind arbitrary trend-based pricing projections from accountants and oligopolistic bond raters instead of using experience or historical payment trends.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shakedown] Reference

Had enough of dealing with oligopolistic wired broadband suppliers?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Engadget] Reference