| 1 | And now the political right is trying to exploit that very crisis, using it to remove one of the few remaining checks on oligarchic influence. | |
| 2 | The bible shows how to deal with all sort of people, from oligarchs to dissidents, angry people. | |
| 3 | It was in the Yeltsin era that the world learnt the term "oligarch", to describe the overmighty tycoons who fused political and economic power. | |
| 4 | On paper, we' re a one-person-one-vote nation; in reality, we' re more than a bit of an oligarchy, in which a handful of wealthy people dominate. | |
| 5 | There' s a bitter irony here. The fiscal crisis in Wisconsin, as in other states, was largely caused by the increasing power of America' s oligarchy. |