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"Oligarchy" in a Sentence (16 examples)
Put plainly, we are steering a steady course toward economic oligarchy, if we are not there already.
It's an oligarchy.
The stench of censorship will spell the end of the oligarchy.
No one is actually experiencing reality thanks to the oligarchy of billionaires.
"Mary, history says that the Roman Empire had bread and circuses for the masses, but really it was a vast conspiracy by the Roman oligarchy to change the very structure of Latin itself. By using a method of 'pronounic decoupling', the implicit mechanisms of Latin were disengaged and its speakers were hardly ever able to understand each other. And that's why I got drunk last night," said Tom.
Algerians are tired of the corrupt economic oligarchy.
We don't accept how the oligarchy that led us into the crisis takes advantage of it to strengthen its power, making people think that there is no alternative to austerity policies.
Oligarchy means "government by the few".
Do you like democracy or oligarchy?
The U.S. is governed by an oligarchy that owns most of the Supreme Court, Congress, and the White House.
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Despite the involvement of all classes of society, America's political duopoly and the importance of money to mass-market campaigning has established an oligarchy that is seldom responsive to the citizenry as a whole, when opposed to the wealthy or major interest groups.
It's an oligarchy because these families own and run almost everything that makes money in El Salvador. Coffee gave birth to the oligarchy in the late 19th century, and economic growth has revolved around them ever since.
The Itasca Project is just one example of existing oligarchy, and a surprisingly open one at that.
Together, we will usher in a generation of change. And if we embrace this brave new course, rather than fleeing from it, we can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves.
The 1832 Reform Act aimed to transform the British oligarchy and allow Parliament to represent the interests of a broader range of the population.
The modern British oligarchy—particularly during periods of Tory rule—has been called a chumocracy.
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