triumvirate

• We can form a triumvirate, a dictatorship, and control commerce, industry, govern­ment, as we choose, merely by virtue of the absolute monopoly we shall have of the electrical power upon which our modern civilization depends so abso­lutely. —  Astounding Stories January, 1935
• Nothing of the bargain was in writing but after his death the remaining partners kept their word, the firm would forever be known as a triumvirate. —  Mistress of Justice
• Eventually the passages to America of all the triumvirate were paid, and they thought it discreet to quit the country, cursing their own stingy executive even more deeply than they blasphemed against the Law and execrated me. —  The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent
• Completing the triumvirate, and thoroughly complicating his speculations, was Elspeth Doyle: New Labour media-manipulator and all-round nippy sweetie, an ascetic and acidic woman who chillingly reminded Parlabane of every soor-faced primary-school teacher ever to terrorise his youth. —  Also by Christopher Brookmyre
• The BNP belief that the so-called differences offered by the established party triumvirate is a myth has again been justified in their attitude to the recent British workers 'wildcat strikes in an attempt to protect British jobs from unfair foreign competition. —  The British National Party

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