Sentences with phrase «ruling oligarchies»

Ruling oligarchies also play significant roles in international dealings.

The term servitù is always the one he uses when speaking of how an individual or a whole people living subject to the discretionary power of someone else will suffer loss of liberty, whether the power be internal to the polity (in the form of a prince or ruling oligarchy wielding arbitrary control) or external (in the form of a colonising power).

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If I were born into a faith organization that was a solid socialist oligarchy having fair flat tax, budget surpluses, welfare without shame, culturally sensitve worldwide outreach, and promise to rule over a planet of my own, I would find sticking around to be a good bet, and all the myths to be no more bizarre than those found in other faith traditions.

This last term of the Supreme Court brought home to us with fresh clarity what it means to be ruled by an oligarchy.

Under the rule of the oligarchy Mytilene revolted against Athens, counting on Spartan aid.

Michels stated that the official goal of representative democracy of eliminating elite rule was impossible, that representative democracy is a façade legitimizing the rule of a particular elite, and that elite rule, that he refers to as oligarchy, is inevitable.

This excludes oligarchy: rule by wealthy elites.

This works because there is an inherent balance, in contrast to systems where there is only rule by the rich (oligarchy) or rule by the poor (democracy).

Whenever these feuds take centrestage, the impetus is invariably traceable to the divide - and - rule imperative, which inevitably profits the oligarchy of northern Nigeria.

They are the parties of the ruling financial oligarchy and political class.

America now has an Oligarchy that uses police state enforcement powers to rule the nation Do you know the difference between dating a European man versus an American man?

Our schools shouldn't operate as oligarchies with rules made by a small group of adults for the much larger group of students.

This level of sacrifice by a small group of people should make us all feel a bit humbled by their resolve, but a little sick inside that it has come to this — the oligarchy rules and, in general, they don't feel the need to listen to any of us.

Latin Songbirds depicts «three left - leaning Latin American leaders who are trying to reverse a history of rule by wealthy oligarchies, reject the U.S.'s and IMF's neoliberal economic policies, take control of their own resources, and improve the lives of their citizens, especially in the areas of literacy, health care, and economic well - being,» states artist Christa Maiwald.

In an undemocratic rolling Oligarchy, the ideal is a ruling unelected government, over the people, for the Oligarchs, by the Oligarchs.