monopolizer

State is ever what he made it, that is to say a monopolizer, convinced that its rights are illimitable and that its interference everywhere is legitimate, accustomed to governing all it can and leaving to individuals only the smallest portion of themselves, hostile to all bodies that might interpose between them and it, distrustful and ill-disposed towards all groups capable of collective action and spontaneous initiation, especially as concerns proprietary bodies.

The Modern Regime, Volume 2 Hippolyte Taine 1860

Benne and Sheats (1948) proposed that group members who exert leadership play three types of functional roles: (1) group-task roles, such as initiator, gatekeeper, and summarizer; (2) group-building and group-maintenance roles, such as harmonizer, supporter, and tension reducer; and (3) individual roles, such as blocker, pleader, and monopolizer.

The Bass Handbook of Leadership Bernard M. Bass 2008

Benne and Sheats (1948) proposed that group members who exert leadership play three types of functional roles: (1) group-task roles, such as initiator, gatekeeper, and summarizer; (2) group-building and group-maintenance roles, such as harmonizer, supporter, and tension reducer; and (3) individual roles, such as blocker, pleader, and monopolizer.

The Bass Handbook of Leadership Bernard M. Bass 2008

He was in his sophomore year when he was diagnosed as "having problems that indicate behavior modification, perhaps in a modular-flexible schedule on which an aggressive monopolizer would diminish his role and force him 'to accept a lesser role in a nonpunitive, restraining, yet pleasant way."

Motherhood, The Second Oldest Profession Bombeck, Erma 1983

She was a great monopolizer: she did not wish one thought of his to be won away from her by another woman; and a sort of irritable feeling came upon her even when she saw him seated by any young and pretty girl, and paying her the common attentions of society.

The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 Various

Besides all this, Mr Snapley was a miserable monopolizer of pompously advanced nothings.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845. Various

When a woman sees her guests are led by a monopolizer along unsafe channels of thought, she can easily, by that happy faculty of hers, bring them back again where all will run smoothly.

Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out Annie H Ryder

And at the same time this increase in the payroll of the Trust or the monopolizer of public privileges means an increase in the income, the prosperity, the legitimate reward of the enterprising merchant, builder and general business man.

Editorials from the Hearst Newspapers 1906

She turned spitefully on that monopolizer and meddler.

Joan of Arc of the North Woods Holman Day 1900

As Plato borrowed, as Shakespeare borrowed, as Mirabeau “plagiarized every good thought, every good word that was spoken in France,” so Napoleon is not merely “representative, but a monopolizer and usurper of other minds.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson Holmes, Oliver W 1891