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oligarchy sentence examples

  • Until 1916 the country was ruled by an oligarchy of landowners who operated a parliament on a restricted suffrage.
  • The liberal leadership simply joined the ranks of the existing landed oligarchy.
  • Only in this way can the plans of the financial oligarchy be blocked.
  • Salazar's economic policies greatly enhanced the wealth of the ruling oligarchy.
  • While paying lip-service to democracy they perpetuate an unhealthy oligarchy.
  • Behind these structures anonymous monetary aces of the international financial oligarchy hide.
  • For supporting the criminal oligarchy in venezuela, and for its historic interference in the internal affairs of peoples.
  • Like most of the new russian oligarchy there have been some rather murky chapters in mr abramovich's past.
  • If people went around saying we had an electoral oligarchy you would get a blank look from most.
  • There is, here, the real risk of a self-perpetuating oligarchy.
  • At length the exiles, becoming numerous, returned, and, engaging and defeating the people, established the oligarchy.
  • How secure was the whig oligarchy that came to power at the death of queen anne in 1714?
  • It will remain literally an oligarchy, a committee of 25 ministers making laws in secret for 450 million people.
  • Responsible for this situation is a small oligarchy of visible and invisible persons who want to impose their agenda for global domination.

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