But, as Punch had frankly and even cheerfully recognized in connexion with a previous attempt, the time had gone by for the oligarchical control of the entertainments of the fashionable world.
Englishmen, under all superficial reforms, remained oligarchical in spirit, as they had been when they first wore trousers.
In consequence, society in London, though still in form under the domination of a Court, assumed in fact its natural and oligarchical structure.
These are the deceitful contrivances of oligarchical legislators.
This last salvo was forced into the bill by the oligarchical faction, for whose junior branches the revenue had long been a fruitful source of provision.
The day of his departure from Dublin was a day of general mourning, except with the oligarchical clique, whose leaders he had so resolutely thrust aside.
It consisted of ninety members, who were chosen for their lifetime from oligarchical families;(401) but in other respects the election was the same as at Sparta, and therefore they were chosen by the whole people.
But it is a very real preservative against the secrecy in which, in oligarchical countries like our own, such scandals can generally be buried.
The dream of an oligarchical Republic was at an end, and the will of the people, expressed with unmistakable emphasis, gave the Chief Magistracy to the author of the Declaration of Independence.
In England, where the opposite principle was adopted, the Ministry became first the committee of an oligarchical Parliament and later a close corporation nominating the legislature which is supposed to check it.
In the Polity thus constituted the ruling class was not a large one, though larger than the ruling class in a mere oligarchy: and this species of Polity, though it was not oligarchy, had a somewhat oligarchical character.
During the absence of Pisander the oligarchical clubs at Athens prepared the way for the success of his designs by skilfully organising a series of assassinations.
The oligarchical government lasted four months and ended two months after new archons took office, that is to say, two months after midsummer.
And as long as any survive who have had experience of oligarchicalsupremacy and domination, they regard their present constitution as a blessing, and hold equality and freedom as of the utmost value.
The Messenian leaders, then, being ofoligarchical tendencies, and aiming at their own immediate advantage, were always too much inclined to peace.
Again there have been many instances of oligarchical governments having in appearance some analogy to aristocracies, which are, if I may say so, as different from them as it is possible to be.
Not one of the democratical leaders, so far as we know, ever ventured to propose so sweeping a measure: we have it here from the pen of the oligarchical Xenophon.
The oligarchical government is that form of government which from its very nature can never acquire stability.
He supported the popular party at Rome against the oligarchical party, and was one of the strongest sympathizers with the Italians in their efforts for the Roman franchise.
The passage of these laws, however, while it terminated one of the great contests between the Romans and Italians, did nothing toward terminating that between the oligarchical and the popular parties.
The oligarchical party had for many generations been composed of two different elements united for mutual protection, but whose interests, in many respects, were mutually antagonistic.
The victory of the oligarchical party at Rome over the popular party was merely temporary, although the supremacy of the latter was never attacked during the lifetime of Sulla.
The training and antecedents of Pompey were of the extreme oligarchical character; his natural leanings were toward humanity and justice.
The popular party at Rome was augmented by the masses of the Italians; while with the oligarchical party was associated the aristocracy and nobles of the various Italian cities.
Sulla, throughout his whole life, was a consistent adherent of the extremeoligarchical party.
During the period of the Social War the oligarchical and the popular parties in Rome had been by one common danger united against the combined force of the Latins, but with the close of the war this union was brought to an end.
In the same way, the foundation of the colonies was in most cases due to the policy of the oligarchical governments.
In an oligarchicalstate citizenship might be confined to 10% of the free population; under a democracy 50% might enjoy it.
The organization of the oligarchical party throughout the empire, which was effected by Lysander in the last stage of the war, contributed to the overthrow of Athenian ascendancy hardly less than the subsidies of Persia.
To Cæsar we must accord the merit of having seen that a continuation of the old oligarchical forms was impracticable This Cicero did not see.
If, which I doubt, the political governance of men was a matter of interest to him, he would have had them governed by oligarchical forms.
That the Empire should be governed according to the old oligarchical forms which had been in use for more than four centuries, and had created the power of Rome--that was his political creed.
Mommsen tells us that nothing could be more rotten than the condition of oligarchical government into which Rome had fallen; and we are inclined to agree with Mommsen, because we have seen what followed.
But so little was as yet understood of liberty that, as each plebeian made his way up into high place and became one of the magistrates of the State, he became also one of the oligarchical faction.
Polysperchon was obliged to retire from Athens, and Cassander established an oligarchical government in the city under the presidency of Demetrius of Phalerus.
The great mass of the Mytileneans regarded their own oligarchical government with suspicion and now threatened that, unless their demands were complied with, they would surrender the city to the Athenians.
Notwithstanding the conduct of Alcibiades the oligarchical conspirators proceeded with the revolution at Athens, in which they had gone too far to recede.
An assembly of the people was then held, and after Thrasybulus had addressed an animated reproof to the oligarchical party, the democracy was unanimously restored.
Upon their arrival in Ionia they informed Alcibiades that measures had been taken for establishing an oligarchical form of government at Athens, and required him to fulfil his part of the engagement by procuring the aid and alliance of Persia.
The oligarchical conspirators formed themselves into a confederacy, and Pisander was sent to Athens to lay the proposal before the Athenian assembly.
Such was the end of the Macedonian empire, which was now divided into four districts, each under the jurisdiction of an oligarchical council.
Antiphon and Phrynichus, at the head of the extreme section of the oligarchical party, were for admitting a Lacedaemonian garrison.
Thrasybulus proposed the recall of Alcibiades, notwithstanding his connection with the oligarchical conspiracy, because it was believed that he was now able and willing to aid the democratic cause with the gold and forces of Persia.
Oligarchical form of the government left open nothing but an appeal to force.
Leading them forth at once to battle, he completely defeated theoligarchical insurgents, and forced them to flee for protection to the Lacedæmonian army.
Moreover, Kritias, with all his vices, was likely to be better rather than worse, as compared with his oligarchical parallel in any other less cultivated city.
Agis presently evacuated the Eleian territory, yet not without planting a Lacedæmonian harmost and a garrison, together with Xenias and the oligarchical exiles, at Epitalium, a little way south of the river Alpheius.
Everywhere the new Lysandrian dekarchy superseded the previous governments, whether oligarchical or democratical.
Here he established a fortified post, enabling the oligarchicalparty to carry on an active civil war.
He represents the oligarchical party in Rhodes as having risen in insurrection, and become masters of the island; he does not name Teleutias, but Eudokimus (Ekdikus?
Even the philo-Laconian and oligarchical Xenophon bestows upon him a marked and unaffected eulogy.
They retained their oligarchical or monarchical forms and constitutions, as in the more vigorous state of their existence, but appeared to have lost their energies both for good and evil.
He offered, on these conditions, to guarantee the possessions of the republic, even without exacting any modification of their oligarchical constitution.
For with a free people you would have no difficulty, I believe, in making peace whenever you desired: but with an oligarchical State friendship itself cannot be safe.
Vindicate the great cause, I entreat you, by the suppression of all oligarchical pretensions, and the establishment of those equal rights without which republican government is a name, and nothing more.
Venice, meanwhile, was a practical instance of the possible prosperity of such a constitution with a strong oligarchical complexion.
Government was regularly oligarchical and irresponsible; sometimes it was inefficient and corrupt.
Oligarchical reasoners in modern times employ the bad part of Aristotle's principle without the good.
But Pitt's offers of mediation were rejected, and the oligarchical party applied for assistance to France.
In 1378 Salvestro de Medici signalized himself by a successful resistance to an oligarchical faction composed partly of the old nobility.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "oligarchical" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
