But this was merely their political cry; most of them being driven by private ambition into the line of conduct so surely fatal to oligarchies that arise out of democracies.
Thus fell the oligarchies of Marseilles, Ister, and Heraclea.
To recover their prisoners, the Athenian government were compelled to enter into a treaty with the hostile oligarchies and withdraw their forces from Boeotia.
Each had its own peculiar government; and, before the Persian war, oligarchies had obtained the ascendency in these several states.
On their departure, the old oligarchies everywhere replaced the friendly democracies, and the nearest neighbours of Athens were again her foes.
Many revolutions also have been brought about in oligarchies by those who could not brook the despotism which those persons assumed who were in power, as at Cnidus and Chios.
Oligarchies also are subject to revolutions, from those who are in office therein, from the quarrels of the demagogues with each other.
Although there are many oligarchies and democracies, yet Socrates, when he is treating of the changes they may undergo, speaks of them as if there was but one of each sort.
These are the different sorts of oligarchies and democracies.
Mr. Grote has admirably described the rise of the primitive oligarchies upon the face of the first monarchy, but perhaps because he so much loves historic Athens, he has not sympathised with pre-historic Athens.
But the old oligarchies had their own work, as we now know.
The old oligarchies wanted to keep their type perfect, and for that end they were right not to allow foreigners to touch it.
In most communities, the levelling process has gone on, and democracies have taken the place of oligarchies and tyrannies.
In other cities, oligarchies continued to have power, and an aristocracy was still recognized, as at Sparta; and here the privileges and freedom of woman were very great.
These oligarchies of the party organisations have now been evolving for two centuries, and their inherent evils and dangers become more and more manifest.
In reality they are democracies so eviscerated by the disease of bad electoral methods that they are mere cloaks for the parasitic oligarchies that have grown up within their form and substance.
The empire of these oligarchies was not so violent as short, nor did they fall upon the people, but in their own immediate ruin.
He preached authority and subordination, and dwelt more on duties than on rights, on religion than on policy; and his system perished in the revolution by which oligarchies were swept away.
The idea arose in the time of Plato--though he repelled it--when the early monarchies and oligarchies had vanished, and it continued to be cherished long after all democracies had been absorbed in the Roman Empire.
The fruits of his factious manœuvres will be seen in the subsequent dekadarchies, or oligarchies of Ten, after the complete subjugation of Athens.
The newly-created oligarchies only became more anxious for complete autonomy than the democracies had been before.
Polysperchon, on his side, sought to conciliate the friendship of the Grecian states, by proclaiming them all free and independent, and by abolishing the oligarchies which had been set up by Antipater.
It is obvious that oligarchies and tyrannies were absolute governments, and in a democracy Aristotle tells us that the ruling class, the whole body of citizens, was above the law.
The only actual governments which it directly and straightforwardly classifies are those which were constructed wholly on the lines of any single one of the six polities, and these were tyrannies, pure oligarchies and Polities.
In commerce and colonization the tyrants were only continuing the work of the oligarchies to which they succeeded.
And it is clear that the way in which the oligarchies used their power varied also.
At first there were democracies on the side of Sparta, and oligarchies on the side of Athens.
The practical result was the establishment of the hegemony of Holland in the Union, and the handing over of the control of its policy to the patrician oligarchies who formed the town councils of that province.
This meant the undisputed hegemony of Holland in the federation, in other words of the burgher oligarchies who controlled the town corporations of the province, and especially of Amsterdam.
This confederation was an alliance of small oligarchies like the Licchavis and Videhans.
Against oligarchies you fight for none of these things, but for your constitution and freedom.
The Russian and Austrian governments, and even the French government in its normal condition, are oligarchies of officials, of whom the head of the state does little more than select the chiefs.
The Lacedæmonian ascendency had been maintained everywhere by local oligarchies or dekarchies, which had been for the most part violent and oppressive.
At the same time, these oligarchies were threatened by the growing strength of their own popular or philo-Theban citizens, who crowded in considerable numbers as exiles to Thebes.
Until the battle of Leuktra, these cities had been among the dependent allies of Sparta, governed by local oligarchies in her interest.
Increase of the Theban strength in Bœotia, against the philo-Spartan oligarchies in the Bœotian cities.
They pushed their success not only against Thespiæ, but against the other Bœotian cities, still held by local oligarchies in dependence on Sparta.
Yet to-day there hangs a menace over it--the feud with Peru over Tacna and Arica: and for the future the savage strikes of the workers against the oligarchies of industry.
These were rights which the oligarchies constantly endeavoured to make void from the time of Henry the Third to the time of Henry the Eighth; yet no attempt was ever made to deny or to revoke them.
The old monarchies break up, and give place to oligarchies first, and then to despotism.
They were usually violently overthrown, and the old oligarchies re-established, or democracies set up in their place.
But by the dawn of the historic period, the patriarchal monarchies of the Achæan age had given place, in almost all the Grecian cities, tooligarchies or aristocracies.
Before the close of the fourteenth century almost all the republics of the peninsula had become converted into exclusive oligarchies or hereditary principalities.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "oligarchies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
