What is "oligarchic"

Usage examples of "oligarchic".

The oligarchic character of the modern English commonwealth does not rest, like many oligarchies, on the cruelty of the rich to the poor.

The administration of the Oligarchic empire was by no means an easy task.

Deluros VI, another large world, though not quite so large as the Oligarchic headquarters, was ripped apart by a number of carefully placed and extremely powerful explosive charges.

The Treasury planetoid was continually balancing tendencies toward inflation and depression, and was not abetted by the fact that with such a multiplicity of worlds in the Oligarchic empire, there was simply no single substance rare enough to back the currency with.

The Treasury coldly informed her that they had more than the requisite funds, and of course they would spend any amount to protect any race that fell under the sanctions of Oligarchic Law.

They were still more than willing to help, but their hands were tied until the Oligarchic Council gave them its written approval.

From there his empire expanded, always on the Rim, always far from the supply bases of the Oligarchic Navy.

It was the farthest from Deluros VIII of all the major Oligarchic worlds, and hence was the coordinating ruling body of tens of thousands of frontier worlds reaching out to the Rim.

It was protected by a fleet as large as their own, and was so deep into the Oligarchic empire that there could be no clear, easy line of retreat in any direction.

As the maneuvering and battling reached their sixth indecisive week, his scout ships reported that Oligarchic reinforcements were on the way, to the tune of at least three million vessels.

From his constant messages asking Deluros VIII for instructions on protocol, I must conclude that he is very insecure, and probably lacks those human character traits of self-reliance, intuition and imagination that are so vital to an ambassador this far out on the Galactic Rim, where decisions must frequently be made without Oligarchic approval.

With a glad heart, the Congress, year after year, removed the political disabilities from class after class of those who had incurred them, until at last all, so desiring, had been reinstated in the full privileges of citizenship, save the very few unrepentant instigators and leaders of the Rebellion, who, in the depths of that oblivion to which they seemingly had been consigned, continued to nurse the bitterness of their downfall into an implacable hatred of that Republic which had paralyzed the bloody hands of Rebellion, and shattered all their ambitious dreams of Oligarchic rule, if not of Empire.

Southern Independence, Slavery, Free Trade and Oligarchic rule--were now plainly in sight, and within reach!

Yoshino sought to advance the cause of liberal democracy in Japan against oligarchic or plutocratic rule.

Strict measures against disorder, a powerful armed force, even a pruning of the oligarchic class and the dispensing of their territories to the poor.