The new governing Press is an oligarchy which still works "in with" the just-less-new parliamentary oligarchy.
The tiny oligarchy which controls it is irresponsible and feels itself immune.
The great stupid mass exists only for the sake of an oligarchy by whom it is duly exploited under nature's decree that the strong shall prey upon the weak.
License for the best to govern the rest, became temporarily his battle-cry; and his political ideal suggested nothing less completely absurd than a republic presided over by an oligarchy of autocrats.
Instead, they are manipulated by the industrial oligarchy into a force for breaking down the standard of living of all workers.
Yet, though the clerical oligarchy was no longer absolute, the ministers still exerted a prodigious influence upon opinion.
So, favored by circumstances, the landed oligarchy met with no effective resistance after the death of Cromwell, and achieved what amounted to being autocratic power in 1688.
By the time of the American War the oligarchy had become so narrow that one hundred and fifty-four peers and commoners returned three hundred and seven members, or much more than a majority of the House as then organized.
The government was in fact in the hands of a small oligarchy of saints, [Footnote: "Three parts of the people of the country remaine out of the church.
Almost impregnable as the position of the oligarchy appeared, it yet had its vulnerable point.
But in considering Japan, allowance must always be made for the danger of the people getting out of the hands of the oligarchy which rules them.
With an oligarchy there will be other, perhaps graver, faults; but with an oligarchy there will be salt, though it be among a few.
The government of Rome had been an oligarchy for many years, though much had been done by the citizens to reduce the thraldom which an oligarchy is sure to exact.
They had made Rome what it was, and he knew and could imagine nothing better; and, odious as an oligarchy is seen to be under the strong light of experience to which prolonged ages has subjected it, the aspiration on his part was noble.
To that oligarchy Cicero was bound by all the convictions, by all the practices, and by all the prejudices of his life.
At every word we read we are tempted to agree with Mommsen that on the Roman oligarchy of the period no judgment can be passed save one, "of inexorable condemnation.
In all this we are reminded of the absolute truth of Mommsen's verdict on Rome, which I have already quoted more than once: "On the Roman oligarchy of this period no judgment can be passed, save one of inexorable and remorseless condemnation.
It was the chief merit of the Albizzi oligarchy that they continued the traditions of the mediæval State, and by their vigorous action checked the growth of the Visconti.
It seemed as though Florence, without any visible alteration in her forms of government, was rapidly becoming an oligarchy even less open than the Venetian republic.
The Albizzi oligarchy was a masterpiece of art, without any force to sustain it but the craft and energy of its constructors.
It was clear that a conflict to the death must soon commence between the oligarchy and this new faction.
Venice, the neighbour and constant foe of Milan, had become a close oligarchy by a process of gradual constitutional development, which threw her government into the hands of a few nobles.
The Dutch oligarchy would still have made peace if they could, but the English Court had at last found its pretext, and was resolved to force on the quarrel.
The commercial oligarchyhad sacrificed everything to economy, and their fighting fleet was not ready.
The commercial oligarchy which formed the Loevenstein Party was very averse to war.
He says the loyal men must form the Government, and we should recognize that Government; and yet he insists upon a mere oligarchy forming it, and an oligarchy of the skin.
The Oligarchy conducted all its operations in the name of State Rights, and in this name it rebelled.
And now that the war is over, it is proposed to invest the same Rebel Oligarchy with a new lease of immense power, involving control over loyal citizens, whose fidelity to the Republic has been beyond question.
Being called to perform this guaranty, you are asked to recognize anoligarchy of the skin, and on this very question the Senate is now called to vote.
The second would have rendered the episcopacy independent of Rome, and have made the Holy Father one of a numerous oligarchy instead of the absolute chief of a hierarchy.
The minor aristocracy which gave solidity to social relations in towns like Florence and Bologna, never attained the rank of a substantial oligarchy in Rome.
Socialism is opposed to oligarchy and monarchy, and therefore to the tyrannies of business cliques and money kings.
The princess knew that the power of Wilcox, his supporting oligarchy and the interplanetary bankers, was all based on the skilful use of propaganda.
He told of the war cabal, of the financial-political oligarchy and its opposing monarchists.
We can see no risk of a greater harm or injury to the masses of India from the transference of power from the hands of a close bureaucracy of foreigners into the hands of the educated and propertied oligarchy of their own countrymen.
It had its origin in a revolution against the power of the nobles, who had reduced the King to a mere puppet of sovereignty, and formed anoligarchy which governed the country entirely in their interests.
Ministers affected to find in all this an unconstitutional exercise of the royal prerogative, and the Whig oligarchy trembled lest its domination should be overthrown.
It was currently believed that Gloucester had grown slack, and Simon rose in popular estimation as a thorough-going reformer who had no mind to substitute the rule of a baronial oligarchy for the tyranny of the king.
Edward thereupon stirred up the oligarchy to issue an instalment of the promised reforms in the document known as the Provisions of Westminster.
At this point the rigid conceptions of the triumphant oligarchy stood in the way of a wide national policy.
The Fall of the Oligarchyand the Rule of Pompeius IV.
Relations of the Oligarchy to the Populace Moreover, the government not only did nothing to counteract this corruption of the population of the capital, but even encouraged it for the benefit of their selfish policy.
In maintaining its power, the slave oligarchy has applied a new test for office"--.
Unmistakable signs show that in New Zealand an agrarian oligarchy by no means friendly to labor has already established itself.
The one thing that it is important to remember is that a monarchy or an oligarchy is not necessarily an antithesis of democracy--only absolutism in the form of a monarchy or oligarchy or plutocracy is an antithesis to democratic principles.
If you wish to get rid of agitation, you must establish an oligarchy like that of Venice, or a despotism like that of Russia.
The forces that had worked for oligarchy in the past might under changed conditions produce a narrow type of urban democracy; but they presented no hope of the realisation of a true popular government.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "oligarchy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
