OLIGARCHY in a Sentence
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Example sentences for OLIGARCHY, such as:
1. It'd had more generations in which to form an oligarchy of respectability.
2. The Spartans held Athens and Thebes, establishing there an oligarchy, nevertheless they lost them.
2. The Spartans held Athens and Thebes, establishing there an oligarchy, nevertheless they lost them.
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Meanings and Examples of OLIGARCHY
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oligarchy
n. a political system governed by a few people
Classic Sentence:
1 It'd had more generations in which to form an oligarchy of respectability.
2 The city, which was owned by an oligarchy of business men, being nominally ruled by the people, a huge army of graft was necessary for the purpose of effecting the transfer of power.
3 The Spartans held Athens and Thebes, establishing there an oligarchy, nevertheless they lost them.
The Prince By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context Highlight In CHAPTER V — CONCERNING THE WAY TO GOVERN CITIES OR PRINCI...
Context Highlight In CHAPTER V — CONCERNING THE WAY TO GOVERN CITIES OR PRINCI...
4 It is well understood here, that by the words Venice, England, we designate not the peoples, but social structures; the oligarchies superposed on nations, and not the nations themselves.
Example Sentence:
1 One small clique ran the student council: what had been intended as a democratic governing body had turned into an oligarchy.