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 Translation for 'oligarchy' from English to Icelandic
NOUN   oligarchy | oligarchies
sagastjórn.
fáveldi {hv}
oligarchy
sagastjórn.
fámennisveldi {hv}
oligarchy
sagastjórn.
fámennisstjórn {kv}
oligarchy
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Translation for 'oligarchy' from English to Icelandic

oligarchy
fáveldi {hv}sagastjórn.

fámennisveldi {hv}sagastjórn.

fámennisstjórn {kv}sagastjórn.
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Usage Examples English
  • Hannibal started the war without the full backing of Carthaginian oligarchy.
  • Some wanted to side with him as a means to bring about oligarchy, others, such as the trierarch Thrasybulus, abhorred oligarchy, but felt that Alcibiades should be allowed to return in order to serve Athens, even if that meant making adjustments to the government of Athens that would make it less broadly democratic.
  • Galeano also criticizes the corruption of the “creole oligarchy,” which refers to the political system in which the distribution of power is concentrated among a few people, often belonging to privileged families from the colonial period.
  • Under the rule of the pro-Spartan and pro-Corinthian oligarchy, Megara lost the port city of Minoa to Athens in 427, was a contributing factor in more civil unrest.
  • In 1786, during Shays' Rebellion, under the written name "Belisarius", Steuben criticized the Massachusetts government for being an oligarchy.

  • They were at the centre of Florentine oligarchy from 1382, in the reaction that followed the Ciompi revolt, to the rise of the Medici in 1434.
  • In his book "Political Parties", written in 1911, Robert Michels argues that most representative systems deteriorate towards an oligarchy or particracy. This is known as the iron law of oligarchy.
  • In contrast to its original conceptual drawing in classical antiquity, aristocracy has been associated in the modern era with its more general and degenerated form of oligarchy, specifically an aristocracy class based oligarchy, with entitled nobility as in monarchies or aristocratic merchant republics.
  • Although he represented the Peruvian oligarchy, the oligarchs revolted against him when he came to power, and it was his loyal supporters who installed him.
  • Their candidate to the 2019 Uruguayan general election was once again Gonzalo Abella, with an anti-oligarchy and anti-imperialist platform.

  • The "Constitution of Athens" attributed to Aristotle names Clitophon as an early proponent of a return to the ancestral constitution ("patrios politeia"), a decisive move towards the oligarchy of the Four Hundred.
  • The exclusive consolidation of power by a dominant religious or ethnic minority has also been described as a form of oligarchy.
  • In 411 BC, the Athenian democracy was overthrown in favour of an oligarchy, and Persia joined the war on the Spartan side.
  • A large faction within The Corps went underground and hopes to overthrow the corporate-run oligarchy that runs Korogese and replace it with a true democracy.
  • Prior to Calderón, Costa Rican Presidents, while democratically elected, had largely supported the interests of the conservative coffee oligarchy.

  • The Meiji oligarchy was the new ruling class of Meiji period Japan. In Japanese, the Meiji oligarchy is called the [...].
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