Sentences with phrase «oligarchy in»

A corner largely thanks to the actions of the Greek kleptocratic oligarchy in power for the past 40 years and partly as a result of his inability to follow through on his electoral promises of only a few months.

In other words, it may be an oligarchy in awe of its own self - perpetuation, but it is also an efficient and able one, in which the spirit of Northcote and Trevelyan still lingers.

We can imagine a Russia in which an authoritarian government accepts religious pluralism and economic oligarchy in exchange for a free hand with the media and political power.

You also need a contingency plan for when the European Union wrecks the Greek banks, which basically have been the tool of the oligarchy in Greece.

«My view then and now is that there is a powerful oligarchy in this country that most people are blind to,» he says.

While the petro - oligarchies in Iran and Saudi Arabia are the worst offenders, the United States continues to push fossil fuels, especially oil, despite the threats they provide to the nation's economy, security and environment.

Not exact matches

He sees Wall Street bankers now entrenched as the new American oligarchy, subtle but surprisingly brazen in their manipulation of political actors and the levers of government power.

The basic model is what occurred in ancient Rome, moving from democracy to oligarchy.

Finance vs. government; oligarchy vs. democracy Democracy involves subordinating financial dynamics to serve economic balance and growth — and taxing rentier income or keeping basic monopolies in the public domain.

«Power that controls the economy should be in the hands of elected representatives of the people, not in the hands of an industrial oligarchy,» Justice William O. Douglas wrote.171 Decentralizing this power would ensure that «the fortunes of the people will not be dependent on the whim or caprice, the political prejudice, the emotional stability of a few self - appointed men.»

Chilean stocks rose because labor's savings were being channeled into a rather small number of stocks in the large companies controlled by the oligarchy.

In Aristotelian terms the shift was from proto - democracy to oligarchy.

Looking over three centuries of Greek experience, Aristotle found a perpetual triangular sequence of democracy turning into oligarchy, whose members made themselves into a hereditary aristocracy — and then some families sought to take the demos into their own camp by sponsoring democracy, which in turn led to wealthy families replacing it with an oligarchy, and so on.

The only debts that Emperor Hadrian annulled were Rome's tax records, which he burned in 119 AD — tax debts owed to the palace, not debts to the creditor oligarchy that had gained control of Rome's land.

Why should such a male oligarchy of the unholiest religious depraving others financially insecure ever be considered holy and these RCC unholies are but self - loathing ambassadorial concubines of anti-Christian ethics when plainly such men of the RCC will never break the breaded filthy monetary ways when they clearly are spiritual hoodlums in clothed garnishments of devilish unrighteousness...?

Wall Street is in control, but its policies are so shortsighted that they are eroding the underlying economy — which is passing from democracy to oligarchy, and indeed it seems to a bipartisan financial kleptocracy.

the small group... its oligarchy... they overturned the VOTE of the MAJORITY... such as in California..

In effect, this group formed an oligarchy — a gridlock of elites who wielded their clout throughout the region.

We need a business model that is more in alignment with democracy and less aligned with oligarchy.

In a BBC interview in 1958, Eliot concluded that «when one considers the classless society, even so far as it has adumbrated itself in the present situation of the world — its mediocrity, its reduction of human beings to the mass... the reduction which Plato foresaw, the reduction to a mass ready to be controlled, manipulated, by a dictator or an oligarchy: observing all those things one is emotionally disposed toward a class society.&raquIn a BBC interview in 1958, Eliot concluded that «when one considers the classless society, even so far as it has adumbrated itself in the present situation of the world — its mediocrity, its reduction of human beings to the mass... the reduction which Plato foresaw, the reduction to a mass ready to be controlled, manipulated, by a dictator or an oligarchy: observing all those things one is emotionally disposed toward a class society.&raquin 1958, Eliot concluded that «when one considers the classless society, even so far as it has adumbrated itself in the present situation of the world — its mediocrity, its reduction of human beings to the mass... the reduction which Plato foresaw, the reduction to a mass ready to be controlled, manipulated, by a dictator or an oligarchy: observing all those things one is emotionally disposed toward a class society.&raquin the present situation of the world — its mediocrity, its reduction of human beings to the mass... the reduction which Plato foresaw, the reduction to a mass ready to be controlled, manipulated, by a dictator or an oligarchy: observing all those things one is emotionally disposed toward a class society.»

Bisected by religious and political conflict in the 16th century, the Low Countries were divided into the Southern Netherlands, an appendage of Catholic Spain with Flanders at its heart, and the United Provinces or Dutch Republic, a newly minted, Protestant, entrepreneurial oligarchy whose growing pains sometimes seem uncannily predictive of our own.

Ruling oligarchies also play significant roles in international dealings.

Imagine if people like Michelle Bachman, Kent Hovind, or Pat Robertson had their way, and there was no such thing as separation of church from state to hold them back from brainwashing our children, persecuting non-believers like they did in medieval times, and turning our country into a Christian oligarchy.

There have been and there are today relatively benign forms of monarchy or oligarchy, also in Islamic countries.

75 % of the people no longer believe in the Establishment of the Church as they are a means for the top 1 % Aristocratic Oligarchy to maintain their power over the 99 % working masses.

God's covenant with Noah which asks fallen humanity to establish a society based on reverence for life and a legal justice that protects the innocent human beings from the murderer who is around; and God's call to Moses to liberate the Israelite people from Pharaoh's slavery; and God permitting monarchy with new perils of oligarchy to destroy the more human Tribal Federation to liberate the Israelites from the technically superior Philistines in Palestine; and Paul's doctrine that the Roman State, which he knew had its role in crucifying Jesus.

Smith asked, «Is there no need for true evangelism among the white Christians of South Africa who supported apartheid; among the white Christians in Latin America who maintain corrupt oligarchies; among the Christians who support the neo-Nazi movement in Germany»?

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.

The recognized forms of government are few in number and have been much the same ever since the Greeks analyzed and classified them to include monarchy, oligarchy, democracy, republic, and despotism.

The traditional gods of oligarchy and empire have, in the words of Walter Brueggemann, a «royal consciousness [which] leads to numbness, especially to numbness about death.

Here too the «iron law of oligarchy» has been brilliantly in evidence, much to the bewilderment of the bishops.

Sarah calls for Africa and Asia to protect their cultures and governments from the political, financial, and moral future proposed by the West: «Mankind would lose much if these continents were to fall into the huge, formless magma of globalization, which is directed toward an inhumane ideal that is in fact hideous, barbaric oligarchy.»

In more recent years, particularly as the Spanish depression deepened, there could be no challengers to this oligarchy.

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).

Only a movement of morning - suited Labourites, steeped in royal, parliamentary and municipal pageantry and charity, could preserve and celebrate the pageantry and charity of the City of London while ending its status as a tax haven and as a state within the State, Europe's last great Medieval republican oligarchy, right where the United Kingdom ought to be.

Elites exist everywhere and can dominate policymaking — and of course that insight is hardly original — we see it in Michels and Pareto, more recently in well - known books by Piketty, Bartels, and Winters on inequality, democracy, and oligarchy.

The MTGP Coordinator Danielle Breck stated that «The Montana Green Party has repeatedly shown, through our various petitioning efforts, that we do, in fact, have the «modicum of voter support» the law requires and that our candidates are not «frivolous,» but rather provide an important alternative to pre-selected, unresponsive, corporate controlled candidates offered by the two - party oligarchy.

David Beetham, The News International scandal is just the tip of the iceberg of unelected oligarchies and corporate power in Britain's democracy, British Politics and Policy at LSE, 29 July 2011.

David Beetham, News International and corporate power in Britain's democracy: just the tip of the «unelected oligarchies» iceberg, Democratic Audit Blog, 26 July 2011.

With these scenarios in mind, the new emerging Arab leadership needs to create genuine democratic expectations as a bulwark against corruption and oligarchy.

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).

As long as you believe that change can come from voting for whatever puppet of the oligarchy you favor, you will keep believing in «democracy» and reject the very notion that revolution might be necessary.

As long as the great masses believe that real «change they can believe in» can come from coloring a dot every couple of years, they are not inclined to conspire against the oligarchy and start a violent revolution.

The statement added, «We observed that hidden in the statements of Buhari are two evil agendas: First evil agenda is that Buhari made this statement in a meeting he had with Biafrans from the riverine or southern part of Biafra which the Hausa - Fulani oligarchy nicknamed South - South or Niger - Delta.

«Ian's call, and his campaign, reject the imperialism of our Democrat - Republican duopoly and our corporate oligarchy, whether in Wisconsin, New York, or in the Arab world.»

After a bunch of billionaires basically brokered this year's change on mayoral term limits, New Yorkers are already chafing against the feeling that we live in some sort of pseudo-democratic oligarchy.

In front of a small crowd of supporters and Syracuse University students, congressional candidate Steve Williams said the United States is becoming an oligarchy — more controlled by a small group of wealthy elites.

In other words, New Rochelle is effectively run by an oligarchy.

For Cantor, Lipton, and other progressives in the organization, the dream is a political revolution: campaign finance reform, a more equitable distribution of wealth, an end to oligarchy.

If judges can declare laws unconstitutional at will and impose - or block - policy decisions on the Executive branch with their verdicts, you're no longer living in a democracy but in a oligarchy.