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Meanings of oligarchy in English
Russian
олигархическая республика Portuguese
oligárquico Spanish
oligarquía Catalan
oligarquia grega Usage of oligarchy in English
1
The conflict between an oligarchy and a natural democracy is ages old.
2
The prospect of a Baptist oligarchy ruling in undivided sway disquiets them.
3
Phrynichus also went beyond all others in his zeal for the oligarchy.
4
It'd had more generations in which to form an oligarchy of respectability.
5
And this, speaking generally, is the way in which oligarchy is established.
6
He created a plebeian aristocracy and blended it with the patrician oligarchy.
7
They knew that it was the oligarchy that feared and detested him.
8
The literary polls was once an oligarchy, it is now a republic.
9
Thus much of the origin,-letus next consider the evils of oligarchy.
10
Of this oligarchy of politician-planters, Colonel Byrd was indeed the most notable.
11
By another stroke he converted the oligarchy of Byzantium into a democracy.
12
The literary polis was once an oligarchy, it is now a republic.
13
Another sort of oligarchy is, when the power is an hereditary nobility.
14
Each borough now has a local oligarchy, an enlisted and governing band.
15
There evidently was a danger of a merchant oligarchy being thus constituted.
16
Venerable oligarchy, august monarchy, are two that would alone need large chapters.
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Oligarchy through the time
Oligarchy across language varieties
United Kingdom
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United States of America
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