Despot

Usage examples of oligarch.

Koronin had been raised to revere the empress, but among the highest class it was an open secret that the oligarchs controlled a powerless, toothless, heirless sovereign.

Circle of Families on Kesse in a hundred years, but still an oligarch.

The memorialists were former samurai who espoused ideas of parliamentary democracy at this time primarily as a means to attack the Satsuma-Choshu oligarchs in the Meiji government.

Then there were the obiter dicta supposed to filter down from the very lips - the beak, some claimed - of the Oligarch himself.

The Oligarchy is secret, and the names of the Members and the Oligarch are kept secret, so that no one knows them.

Humans have been known to submit to many constraints: to rule by Autarchs, by Plutarchs, by the power seekers of the many Republics, by Oligarchs, by tyrant Majorities and Minorities, by the hidden suasions of Polls, by profound instincts and shallow juvenilities.

But Tell Sukhas was not the sort of world whose oligarchs sent warships to Solitude Hermae on good-will journeys.

The memorialists were former samurai who espoused ideas of parliamentary democracy at this time primarily as a means to attack the Satsuma-Choshu oligarchs in the Meiji government.

Hence, journalism in modern Japan was in its early development distincdy a journalism of protest, and it was to a great extent for this reason that the Meiji oligarchs so readily and frequently attacked journalists through the issuance of restrictive press laws.

The oligarchs and tyrants and despots and politicians who ruled their planets by the threat of the Disciplinary Circuit found this new state of affairs deplorable.

But the Corporate World oligarchs were more concerned with the economic implications of their positions.

The Aristarchs—the body of commercial oligarchs which governed the city—had beseeched the Oracle of the Flockwarden for some remedy to the civic anguish.

Several officers had come and gone before Asperamanka was appointed-som e said by no less than the Oligarch himself.

Now that the oligarchs had it made, they were far from eager to create potential rivals, so theyd cheerfully repealed the chartered company statutes and resurrected BuCol.

Now that the oligarchs had it made, they were far from eager to create potential rivals, so they'd cheerfully repealed the chartered company statutes and resurrected BuCol.