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Example sentences for: oligarchy

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It ran the town like a private company for the benefit of a local oligarchy, seeking future prosperity as international financiers for the kings of Spain or France.
Highlight of the palace tour, back down on the second floor, is the huge Sala del Maggior Consiglio (Great Council Hall), where ordinary citizens presented their complaints in person in the Republic’s most democratic days before the oligarchy reserved it for their secret deliberations.
It also instructs them about how things can be different from what they are in today's China--where all power resides in the bloody hands of a narrow oligarchy and a broader party of bootlickers.
In the same year, hatred of the high-handed Tory oligarchy in Upper Canada provoked a rebellion among small farmers and tradesmen beset by economic depression.
"Above all, the interests and privileges of the oligarchy will be protected."