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- noun Plural form of
oligarch .
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Examples
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Would only liberals embrace the same kind of sentiment where the term oligarchs are replaced by Islamic terrorists.
Time's Person of the Year. Ann Althouse 2007
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The great driving force of the oligarchs is the belief that they are doing right.
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This country's honor, won in 10 years of struggle, alone in this continent facing imperialism, this honor our country values very highly. but we can say, as defined by our policy, that the Latin American oligarchs will never support any truly revolutionary process.
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One of the oligarchs is German Khan, the billionaire founder of the Alfa Group.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Operating under the radar, Condor operatives included military personnel, European neofascists, CIA-trained Cuban terrorists and international narcotraffickers who did the "wet work" for their political masters, Latin American oligarchs and their North American allies.
Pacific Free Press - Hard Truths for Hard Times - Progressive opinion, dissident news 2009
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Unlike thirty years ago when Latin American oligarchs relied on CIA-financed publications such as El Mercurio in Chile or La Prensa in Argentina to fan the flames of anti-leftist discord and sow chaos, thus seeding the ground for the horrors that followed the military takeover,
Pacific Free Press - Hard Truths for Hard Times - Progressive opinion, dissident news 2009
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We know that Simon Johnson and James Kwak have hit a nerve because Larry Summers, the administration's principal economic adviser and the man that carries water for what the authors rightly call the financial "oligarchs" -- has been forced into an open defense of the oligarchs 'rule.
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We know that Simon Johnson and James Kwak have hit a nerve because Larry Summers, the administration's principal economic adviser and the man that carries water for what the authors rightly call the financial "oligarchs" -- has been forced into an open defense of the oligarchs' rule.
William K. Black: 13 Bankers : The American Oligarchs And The Systemically Dangerous Institutions (SDIs) They Rule William K. Black 2010
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We know that Simon Johnson and James Kwak have hit a nerve because Larry Summers, the administration's principal economic adviser and the man that carries water for what the authors rightly call the financial "oligarchs" -- has been forced into an open defense of the oligarchs 'rule.
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It is obvious that those who can truly be called "oligarchs" - those who have combined state power and big business in one individual - were created by none other than Vladimir
NYT > Home Page By MIKHAIL KHODORKOVSKY 2011
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