Democracy always degenerated into mob rule, monarchy into tyranny, and aristocracy into oligarchy.

This consolidated the oligarchy which had begun to form as early as the 15th century.

England in 1820 was governed by a corrupt oligarchy that exercised power in intimate collaboration with a national religious establishment.

After 1991, Boris Yeltsin s unruly privatization reduced millions of people to penury, and elevated a corrupt oligarchy into virtual rulership.

Unlike in Egypt, the vacuum resulting from Saleh s departure can be quickly filled, so the country need not fall back on a military oligarchy.

Second, he gave to a majority of Venezuelans a sense of identity, pride, and dignity long denied them by a corrupt, elitist, light skinned oligarchy.

The international community should also adopt protective measures, including the freezing of assets and a travel ban for high ranking officials of the Ugandan oligarchy.

Most Member States will have no choice but to sit on the sidelines while an oligarchy of 11 wields a monopoly of power over international peace and security.

For hundreds of millions of citizens in Communist run countries in the twentieth century, the me in the question was a dictator or oligarchy ruling with totalitarian or authoritarian powers.

These ideas were tailored to the views of the financial oligarchy. But the tools of economics, as currently taught, provide little scope for investigating the links between economists ideas and the structures of power.

The Glass Steagall Act s separation of investment from commercial banking greatly benefited the established oligarchy of investment banks, but somehow the entry of competitors from commercial banks and insurers increased financial companies profits further.

The new Ukraine is resolutely pro European, and ready to defend Europe by defending itself. But its enemies not only Putin s Russia, but also its own bureaucracy and financial oligarchy are formidable, and it cannot defeat them alone.

The government is fighting at least two wars simultaneously taking on a deeply entrenched oligarchy, while trying to fend off its hostile eastern neighbor. Further trouble in the form a steeply declining economy is something it cannot afford.

Indeed, such is China s political system that only the strongest advance. One fallen princeling, Bo, has been accused of cruelty and corruption traits that are endemic in China s cloistered but fragmented oligarchy, which values family lineage and relies on networks of allies.

In Guatemala, the central government controlled by a oligarchy of European decent was waging a scorched Earth campaign against an indigenous rebellion, and I saw an image that reflected the history of Latin America conquest through a combination of the Bible and the sword.