Creative people are repelled by what they regard as an oligarchic establishment of institutionalised, lowest common denominator art and they are fighting back.
The privatisation of state enterprises in most East and Central European countries provided a glaring example of oligarchic machinations.
In the ordinary medieval course there had there arisen an oligarchic government of aristocratic citizens in place of the early dominion of the Abbess; and the city was made an imperial fief by Frederick II.
It is significant that Grote's anti-rationalistic critics make no attempt to gauge the respective effects of "tyrannic" and democratic or oligarchic rule on the inner life of men, which is what Grote chiefly considered.
Measures against Sulla The government did not fail to issue decrees against the oligarchic proconsul.
For, while the oligarchic party were concentrating all their energies on Etruria, the democracy everywhere put forth the utmost efforts to break the blockade of Praeneste.
In this respect too the conservative party had to borrow from its opponents; the protector of the oligarchic constitution had himself to come forward as a tyrant, in order to avert the ever-impending -tyrannis-.
The extravagant prerogative of the censors to revise the list of the senate and to erase or add names at pleasure was in reality incompatible with an organized oligarchic constitution.
The consequences were soon apparent Brundisium itself, a considerable community of new burgesses, at once opened its gates without resistance to the oligarchic general, and all Messapia and Apulia followed its example.
For an oligarchic State tends very readily to illusion, being conducted by men who live at leisure, satisfy their passions, are immune from the laws, and prefer to shield themselves from reality.
It was not only seven hundred years of immense wealth, of oligarchic government, of a vast population, and of what so often goes with commerce and oligarchy--civil and internal peace.
Chile is thus the prime example of social stability and progress attained through white oligarchic rule.
Chile rapidly evolved a stable society, essentially oligarchic and consciously patterned on aristocratic England.
In the place of the old oligarchic republic it established a centralized government.
Van Hogendorp's first plan to revive the oldoligarchic republic had failed at once.
Despotic or oligarchic pretensions are proof against the most formidable battery that reason and experience can construct against them.
Another such irritating hypocrisy is the oligarchic attitude towards mendicity as against organized charity.
Almost every despotic or oligarchicstate has admitted women to its privileges.
It appeared shortly before Peisander had arrived in Athens from the camp at Samos for the purpose of organizing the oligarchic policy.
This came out three months later than the Lysistrata, during the reign of terror established by the oligarchic conspirators, but before their blow had been struck.
The aristocracy of which we know most in ancient Greece was that of Athens prior to the reforms of Cleisthenes, but all the Greek city-states passed through a period of aristocratic or oligarchic government.
The Colony Records (1) [An Attempt of the Oligarchic Government to hold the Allegiance of all Inhabitants by an Oath.
The Oligarchic Usurpation Records of the Governor and Company of Massachusetts Bay, I (under dates given).
An oligarchic government, formed out of the richer class, would have furnished a less efficient administration, and would probably, after some years of quarrelling, have given place to a military chief.
We have not a doubt but they would regard with abhorrence any schemes of oligarchic illuminism for guarding the pleasures of the few by politic deception of the multitude.
There are no fiscal legacies of an oligarchic past.
The oligarchic character of the modern English commonwealth does not rest, like many oligarchies, on the cruelty of the rich to the poor.
Even then one must take pains not to assume airs, or the next time one is litigant before the dicastery, the insinuation of "an undemocratic, oligarchic manner of life" will win very many adverse votes among the jury.
The "Serrar del Consiglio" made Venice and her empire the paragon of oligarchic States.
The theatre was not re-erected until 1783, when the oligarchic party regained the ascendancy and brought back with them the drama, which the democrats in their reign would not permit.
To take Rousseau's side was to protest against the oligarchic authority which had condemned him, and the quarrel about Emilius was only an episode in the long war between the popular and aristocratic parties.
He has popularised philosophy, or rather he has repopularised it, for philosophy is always popular, except in peculiarly corrupt and oligarchic ages like our own.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "oligarchic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
