oligarchies in English
noun
1
a small group of people having control of a country, organization, or institution.
the ruling oligarchy of military men around the president
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1. All past oligarchies have fallen from power either because they ossified or because they grew soft.
2. However, this beautiful part of the world has been Balkanised by imperialism and its local oligarchies of feudal landlords and bourgeois upstarts, backed by the church establishment, have bled the land and its people for their own selfish interests and gain.