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Example sentences for "plutocrats"

Lexicographically close words:
plustost; plute; plutocracy; plutocrat; plutocratic; plutonic; plutonium; plutot; pluvial; pluvialis
  1. The plutocrats will be only too pleased if we profess to preach a new morality; for they know jolly well that they have broken the old one.

  2. For the last twenty years or so the plutocrats who govern England have allowed the English nothing but bad journalism.

  3. It is of this that the plutocrats will take advantage.

  4. The old lucid and trenchant expounder of Socialism, such as Blatchford or Fred Henderson, always describes the economic power of the plutocrats as consisting in private property.

  5. Say that the stud is a useless luxury: but then, what about the daubs for which plutocrats pay thousands of guineas?

  6. Why forget essential business only in order to attack a class of plutocrats whom we have made, and whom our society worships with odious grovellings?

  7. But no science that I have studied convinces me that this plutocracy and plunder and monopoly are good for anyone but the plutocrats and the plunderers.

  8. Heine, like many another thinker, was struck by the wretchedness and poverty of London, hiding away behind the mansions of plutocrats and Respectables.

  9. Just watch me startle these plutocrats with my scorn of their costly food.

  10. Today every one is paid according to how completely the public or the plutocrats are "sold" on him.

  11. And suppose the elevator should arrive full of plutocrats coming home from the opera, or high-strung women who would shriek when they saw him with the fire-hose?

  12. These plutocrats are the enemies of religion, as they are of the state.

  13. To tell you the truth," I added, "While I cannot approve of your terrible Brotherhood, nevertheless what I have seen and heard tonight satisfies me that the Plutocrats should no longer cumber the earth with their presence.

  14. The Burchard incident, the dinner given by the plutocrats at Delmonico's, certainly changed several hundred votes--important when we remember that a change of less than six hundred votes in the State of New York would have elected him.

  15. Whatever duties protect the two thousand plutocrats is protection to American industries.

  16. Plutocrats and monopolists might well wince at being called "malefactors of great wealth," "the wealthy criminal class.

  17. But not one of these plutocrats conducted the private business which made him rich by the methods to which he condemned the business administration of the government.

  18. Revolutionists proposed to sweep them away than were the American Plutocrats of the Rooseveltian era when he promoted laws to regulate them.

  19. To many critics they seemed cruel, because, instead of allowing for exceptions, they huddled all plutocrats together, the virtuous and the vicious alike.

  20. The princes of old conquered the earth, but the modern plutocrats put a mortgage on it.

  21. There the Dryfooses met with the success denied them in New York; many American plutocrats must await their apotheosis in Europe, where society has them, as it were, in a translation.

  22. Your interest in--in plutocrats is charitable, then?

  23. When they do," replied Krebs, "they will set about making the plutocrats happy.

  24. Now plutocrats are discontented, and never satisfied; the more they get, the more they want, the more they are troubled by what other people have.

  25. You could do nothing that would give the Plutocrats a harder rub than to speak on the eve, as it were, of election, in the hotbed of Plutocracy," he assures Trueman.

  26. The Plutocrats ridicule the assertion, yet have no figures to quote.

  27. I am not one of the discontented, homeless vagabonds who the Plutocrats declare are alone demanding the destruction of Monopoly.

  28. But we are to follow the course which the Plutocrats have traversed.

  29. From the servant of the Plutocrats he has come to be their most powerful adversary.

  30. With sharp sarcasm he refers to the precautionary action of the Plutocrats to prevent his addressing a New York audience.

  31. That's only one of the rumors which the Plutocrats have set afloat since they unearthed the fact that you are to be a candidate for the vice-presidential nomination.

  32. This takes away the last argument of the Plutocrats who seek to connect Trueman with the act of Proscription.

  33. Mr. Trueman, are you aware that the Plutocrats have arranged for a torchlight parade for to-night, as a counter demonstration to your meeting?

  34. The pomp of the Plutocrats and the destitution of the masses is portrayed by these striking contrasts.

  35. In the minds of the Plutocrats it seems utterly impossible for Trueman to even obtain the vice-presidential nomination.

  36. Yet it would not take as much as you imagine to nullify the effect of the millions of bribe money and tribute money that the Plutocrats are spending.

  37. The local committee of the Plutocrats has abandoned all hope of coercing the people.

  38. But for the certainty of the Plutocrats that their money will win them a victory, all the leaders of the Independence party would be forcibly done away with.

  39. You were not to be refused the right to speak; that would have been too bold and brazen an act for even the Plutocrats to carry out.

  40. The only way to change the hearts of most plutocrats is to hit them over the head with a two-by-four.

  41. What the plutocrats call the menace of Socialism is everywhere.

  42. Asiatic plutocrats are sure, therefore, wherever they may be settled, to provoke enemies in the very act of creating clients and dependents.

  43. Pride, ambition and love of gain and of power are pulling the American plutocrats forward.

  44. The Plutocrats Must Carry On The American plutocrats--those who by force of their wealth share in the direction of public policy--must carry on.

  45. But even were the dispatches true, what must be said of a "business revival" that reduces wages, that adds enormously to the wealth of the plutocrats while making economic conditions harder for the great mass of the American people?

  46. These plutocrats are so afraid of our politicians that there is danger of their dying of neuropathy.

  47. All the political corruption of the party when it was dominated by plutocrats is condoned because its perpetrators shout "sixteen to one!

  48. Under these circumstances the conflict between the commons and the plutocrats who ruled over them had some original characteristics, and the problem of church and state in Lynn emerges in a new and subtle form.

  49. I was watched by the plutocrats in philosophical silence; by the professor, with a geniality that nothing seemed able to shake.

  50. You were plutocrats there, more powerful than kings!

  51. Was he breaking under the tremendous responsibility incurred by removing the plutocrats from Earth?

  52. He beguiled the plutocrats into his castle, I grant you, and shuffled them from the scene of their grievous labors, yet this was not because he loved the rich man less but the poor man more.

  53. Stepping in front of the steel door, I toyed menacingly with the revolver and surveyed the plutocrats with a grim humor I made no attempt to conceal.

  54. Of course, a view of New York was out of the question, but the frantic ex-plutocrats imagined they could see it, and even look down into Wall Street for aught I know.

  55. The plutocrats were about to leave the castle in a temper, and if I wrested tribute from them it must be now or never.

  56. He was glad the ex-plutocrats had fallen into royal favor, he was sorry to have me yet under that ban, and he was greatly wrought up to learn that the king meditated such an early start on his inter-stellar campaign.

  57. These two plutocrats breathed a simultaneous sigh.

  58. Democracy may be a very obvious and facile affair for plutocrats and politicians who only have to use it as a rhetorical term.

  59. But I am not primarily interested in the plutocrats whose vision takes so vulgar a form.

  60. Victory of letterfiles And plutocrats in miles With dollar signs upon their coats, Diamond watchchains on their vests And spats on their feet.

  61. Fried ham as Mammy made it is mostly a fragrant memory--only plutocrats dare indulge in it these days.

  62. Plutocrats had not then been invented--but tradition tells of one high gentleman, who was self-sufficient.


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