Oligarchic in a sentence

Kagarlitsky suggests Putin has used the war to justify a state of emergency in Russia, which is designed to meet the contradictions between growing oligarchic wealth and the masses deteriorating material and political situation.

What’s more, in November last year, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy launched the process of dismantling Ukraine’s oligarchic system by the anti-oligarch law.

For all its democratic rhetoric, the European Union is closer to an oligarchic institution.

It cannot be the outcome of democratic central concoction in which the mishmash of people and ideas are manipulated to fulfill the wishes of the oligarchic leadership or leader!

Many historical cases of fascism voted in. Especially when aided by xenophobia, demagoguery, and unholy amounts of oligarchic dark money.

It is obvious that the present Bulgarian government is unable to adapt the national economy to NextGenerationEU and the Green deal, due to heavy corruption, oligarchic dependencies and the key role of radical nationalists in the coalition.

Meanwhile, the Republicans find themselves largely castigated in the press and by a torrent of oligarchic wealth at the Senate and local levels.

No oligarchic “corporate Democrat” plot or marching orders.

So the President seems unlikely to invite the Supreme Court to look into this oligarchic, undemocratic travesty of modern legal process.

Spartans feared democratic Athenians would spread ideas inimical to martial rule, subverting the oligarchic system.

Given his role in engineering the merger of Dow Chemical with DuPont, the more accurate term for Liveris would surely be oligarchic capitalism.

While oligarchic parasites from the pharmaceutical industry and health insurance companies make enormous profits, bankruptcy and the fear of being denied care hang over the American people like a sword of Damocles.

Our New Gilded Age is defined by its oligarchic concentration of wealth and power: not just how much wealth is controlled by the 0.001%, but how many of our key markets are dominated by just a handful of players -- sometimes just a single company.

Public education has become a flashpoint for resisting authoritarianism and oligarchic rule.

With privatization of public airwaves and consolidation of media, an oligarchic class put the First Amendment under its proprietary control, restricting user access and setting terms and conditions for their use.

An oligarchic republic, Ancona was ruled by six Elders, elected by the three terzieri into which the city was divided: S. Pietro, Porto and Capodimonte.

Empedocles continued this tradition by helping to overthrow the succeeding oligarchic government.

For the constitution they were under was oligarchic in every respect and especially in that the poor, along with their wives and children, were in slavery to the rich.

Hoping to restore the juntas of oligarchic partisans that he had put in place after the defeat of the Athenians in 404 BC, Lysander arranged for Agesilaus II, the Eurypontid Spartan king, to take command of the Greeks against Persia in 396 BC.

It is believed that the Etruscan government style changed from total monarchy to oligarchic republic (as the Roman Republic) in the 6th century BC although it is important to note this did not happen to all the city-states.