How to Use oligarchic in a Sentence

oligarchic

adjective

• The key issue here is not just to get rid of Poroshenko, but to pass from oligarchic rule to people’s power.
  — Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Apr. 2019
• The Quail is an exercise in elite excess for the oligarchic and overrestored—cars and humans alike.
  — Brett Berk, Car and Driver, 2 Mar. 2018
• Many of the young activists are driven by a sense that city’s oligarchic political system is rigged against them.
  — Time, 20 July 2019
• The oligarchic sharks are circling the water, and now their head shark is ensconced at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
  — Will Bunch, Philly.com, 8 Oct. 2017
• Along the way, Western lawyers, accountants, real estate agents, and consultants grew fat on the inflow of oligarchic wealth.
  — Casey Michel, The New Republic, 15 Feb. 2022
• Putin would rather deal with a pro-Western oligarchic president in Kiev who does little to improve people’s lives, Frolov said.
  — Will Englund, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2019
• In Russia’s latest oligarchic era, the Napoleon is typically a tower of thin layers of pastry, at least eight tiers high and sometimes more than 20.
  — Margarita Gokun Silver, Saveur, 31 Dec. 2019
• And now a case of behind-the-scenes oligarchic corruption has metastasized into full-blown democracy for sale.
  — Ryan Cooper, TheWeek, 7 Feb. 2020
• The country’s corruption and oligarchic system are decades-long issues that the current pro-EU government has struggled to curb.
  — Cristian Gherasim, CNN, 15 Feb. 2023
• The only group that would lose from reforms are the property tycoons and other elites who have benefited from an oligarchic system.
  — Time, 2 July 2019
• Newman understands how kleptocracy and oligarchic excess — both in Russia and in the West — repel and attract us in 2022.
  — Michael Taylor, San Antonio Express-News, 27 Apr. 2022
• The transition to capitalism bankrupted millions and produced a handful of billionaires—a new oligarchic class, built on the back of the old power structure.
  — Jessica Loudis, New Republic, 13 Dec. 2017
• One was the energy broker Firtash, the embodiment of the oligarchic system that had proved so beneficial to Putin.
  — Jim Rutenberg, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2022
• The risk is not of an ideological reshaping of the state, but of weak institutions failing to restrain oligarchic rule.
  — The Economist, 26 Oct. 2017
• The cracks are faint and fall short of suggesting any groundswell of oligarchic opposition to Putin, according to experts and Western officials.
  — Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2022
• Because of this oligarchic pact between big industry and the political elites.
  — Nicholas Zimmerman, Daily Intelligencer, 19 Dec. 2017
• In the nineteen-nineties, this system morphed into the oligarchic structures that took root in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and several other post-Soviet states.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2019
• In stocks, that’s a nearly oligarchic business where the likes of Citadel Securities and Virtu Financial operate at lightning speed.
  — Justina Lee, Bloomberg.com, 10 May 2021
• The class system that Wells faced as a London child has been replaced by an oligarchic system, squeezing out even the upper-middle professional class to which Wells ascended, and the Fabians belonged.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 15 Nov. 2021
• The majority of those in the Third World who embraced communism saw it, more than anything, as a means of easing the poverty and inequality wrought by oligarchic capitalism.
  — Andre Pagliarini, The New Republic, 5 June 2020
• But despite the ostentatious display of oligarchic wealth, the City of Westminster council will have a lot of difficulty in finding which houses are Russian-owned.
  — Sophie Mellor, Fortune, 21 Sep. 2022
• Perhaps because conservatives then, as now, knew on which side of the divide the institutional and oligarchic power landed.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 17 Sep. 2020
• Russian overlords could stymie the Ukrainian president’s efforts to expose oligarchic networks.
  — Maria Popova, Foreign Affairs, 17 Feb. 2022
• The finance minister, mocked by the opposition as a consigliere for oligarchic power, applauded the leader for pushing through economic reforms that mostly line the pockets of the oligarchs.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2017
• This would achieve their goal of re-channeling government benefits from the working poor, who require safety net assistance, to oligarchic holders of dynastic wealth.
  — David Dayen, New Republic, 12 Dec. 2017
• As the party politicians have stated many times in public, Poland gained complete sovereignty only when PiS took power — and is only now shaking off the authoritarian or oligarchic grip of the previous regimes.
  — Mateusz Mazzini, Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2018
• Despite the drawbacks of the latter—and their many failings in places like Poland —many Ukrainians might prefer the liberal democratic version of capitalism to the oligarchic authoritarian one.
  — Jan Smoleński, The New Republic, 22 Mar. 2022
• America may be dominated by oligarchic elites, but arguably the biggest threat to our economic and political system might be located further down the food chain.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 1 Apr. 2022
• While seizures of yachts and fancy homes may grab headlines – and may send some oligarchs scrambling to offload similar assets – the reality remains that industry after industry in the US remains wide open to anonymous, oligarchic wealth.
  — Casey Michel, CNN, 26 Apr. 2022
• Western nations spent years racing to grab a slice of this oligarchic capital, loosening regulations and tightening protections to attract the kinds of malign wealth Russian oligarchs know well.
  — Casey Michel, The New Republic, 27 Apr. 2022

Last Updated: 16 Oct 2024