oligarchies

• The Ganges basin had originally been ruled by a number of small kingdoms and by a few so-called republics which were really oligarchies, based on the institutions of the old clans and tribes. —  Buddha
• Of all tyrannies, oligarchies are the most delusive and dreadful, and anarchy is equally to be deplored. —  Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Volume 2.
• Proof, in case anybody needed it, that the Bolivarian movement cuts across color and class lines, while the oligarchies are busy trying to draw them in the ever-sinking sand. —  Progressive Bloggers
• They rail against ill-defined "oligarchies," entrenched political parties, local elites, the church or media establishment. —  CounterPunch
• Judicial oligarchies are antithetical to our republican form of governance. —  The Guardian RSS

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