Oligarchy Definition

Oligarchy Sentence Examples

• This governing oligarchy was known as " the patricians."

• The regal government was at a later time exchanged for an oligarchy or a democracy.

• He was hated and feared by most of the oligarchy.

• A more important result of Athenian intervention was the substitution of the democratic government for the oligarchy which had succeeded the early monarchy; at any rate forty years later we find that Argos possessed complete democratic institutions.

• A refuge of Italian pauperism in the time of the Gracchi, after the triumph of the oligarchy the Narbonnaise became a field for shameless exploitation, besides providing, under the proconsulate of Caesar, an excellent point of observation whence to watch the intestine quarrels between the different nations of Gaul.