What's the difference between government and oligarchy?

Government


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of governing; the exercise of authority; the administration of laws; control; direction; regulation; as, civil, church, or family government.
  • (n.) The mode of governing; the system of polity in a state; the established form of law.
  • (n.) The right or power of governing; authority.
  • (n.) The person or persons authorized to administer the laws; the ruling power; the administration.
  • (n.) The body politic governed by one authority; a state; as, the governments of Europe.
  • (n.) Management of the limbs or body.
  • (n.) The influence of a word in regard to construction, requiring that another word should be in a particular case.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) National policy on the longer-term future of the services will not be known until the government publishes a national music plan later this term.
  • (2) The omission of Crossrail 2 from the Conservative manifesto , in which other infrastructure projects were listed, was the clearest sign yet that there is little appetite in a Theresa May government for another London-based scheme.
  • (3) It would be fascinating to see if greater local government involvement in running the NHS in places such as Manchester leads over the longer term to a noticeable difference in the financial outlook.
  • (4) But when he speaks, the crowds who have come together to make a stand against government corruption and soaring fuel prices cheer wildly.
  • (5) Handing Greater Manchester’s £6bn health and social care budget over to the city’s combined authority is the most exciting experiment in local government and the health service in decades – but the risks are huge.
  • (6) Paradoxically, each tax holiday increases the need for the next, because companies start holding ever greater amounts of their tax offshore in the expectation that the next Republican government will announce a new one.
  • (7) Theresa May signals support for UK-EU membership deal Read more Faull’s fix, largely accepted by Britain, also ties the hands of national governments.
  • (8) "The Samaras government has proved to be dangerous; it cannot continue handling the country's fate."
  • (9) People should ask their MP to press the government for a speedier response.
  • (10) The new Somali government has enthusiastically embraced the new deal and created a taskforce, bringing together the government, lead donors (the US, UK, EU, Norway and Denmark), the World Bank and civil society.
  • (11) Since the start of this week, markets have been more cautious, with bond yields in Spain reaching their highest levels in four months on Tuesday amid concern about the scale of the austerity measures being imposed by the government and fears that the country might need a bailout.
  • (12) One-nation prime ministers like Cameron found the libertarians useful for voting against taxation; inconvenient when they got too loud about heavy-handed government.
  • (13) Madrid now hopes that a growing clamour for future rescues of Europe's banks to be done directly, without money going via governments, may still allow it to avoid accepting loans that would add to an already fast-growing national debt.
  • (14) Adding a layer of private pensions, it was thought, does not involve Government mechanisms and keeps the money in the private sector.
  • (15) The mortality data were derived from the reports by Miyagi Prefectural Government.
  • (16) A recent visit by a member of Iraq's government from Baghdad to Basra and back cost about $12,000 (£7,800), the cable claimed.
  • (17) Until recently, the control was thought to be governed by single, dominant genes, located within the I region of the H-2 complex.
  • (18) Labour MP Jamie Reed, whose Copeland constituency includes Sellafield, called on the government to lay out details of a potential plan to build a new Mox plant at the site.
  • (19) Nevertheless, this LTR does not govern efficient transcription of adjacent genes in a transient expression assay.
  • (20) They have actively intervened with governments, and particularly so in Africa.” José Luis Castro, president and chief executive officer of Vital Strategies, an organisation that promotes public health in developing countries, said: “The danger of tobacco is not an old story; it is the present.

Oligarchy


Definition:

  • (n.) A form of government in which the supreme power is placed in the hands of a few persons; also, those who form the ruling few.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Once neither painfully elitist nor patronisingly populist, Edinburgh in August now threatens to become an oligarchy, a Chipping Norton of the arts, its sluices greased by Foster's lager, rather than by country suppers and police horses.
  • (2) Coleridge, denouncing “a contemptible democratical oligarchy of glib economists”, asked: “Is the increasing number of wealthy individuals that which ought to be understood by the wealth of the nation?” Dickens did much with Carlyle’s despairing insight into cash payment as the “sole nexus” between human beings.
  • (3) Nor is the Vermont senator only attracting the usual leftwing suspects, such as those attendees who wore “Oligarchy Response Team” T-shirts.
  • (4) He promised to raise the minimum wage, rehire fired workers and to fight a Greek oligarchy well-known for its corruption and tax evasion.
  • (5) "Those who are responsible should pay for the crisis: the bankers, industrialists, ship-owners, big ­merchants, the oligarchy of this country."
  • (6) Hence the real question that Scots have to decide: will independence shift the balance of power away from oligarchy and towards democracy?
  • (7) If there is a “generational struggle to defend the principles of the free market”, it’s a struggle against the corporations, which have replaced the market with a state-endorsed oligarchy .
  • (8) Voting for the oligarchy is not how you get rid of the oligarchy,” said Carlos Martinez, 40, an activist from Texas who creates social media content .
  • (9) And that way is that today in America, we are living in a country that is moving quite rapidly toward an economic oligarchy and a political oligarchy.
  • (10) Thus politics in Russia , the one common denominator in the Litvinenko enigma, may have nothing to do with evolving democracy or our old friend market forces, but rather is a murderous clash of oligarchies over wealth, like Machiavelli's Borgias, or a Hollywood Godfather IV view of events.
  • (11) Jakarta’s politics – and Indonesia’s – is entrenched in an elitist oligarchy, in which party bosses or their corporate backers are the main financiers.
  • (12) Liberating individualism was transformed into exploitable atomisation, creative self-expression replaced by a depoliticised, desocialising consumerism that enabled the rise of a new oligarchy.
  • (13) That is called an oligarchy.” Sanders congratulated the crowd for “making history” by taking part in what the campaign believes is the largest online organizing event of the 2016 campaign so far.
  • (14) If they still come down we will need to take some sort of action.” “I’m still looking at legal action from the supreme court to stop them coming anyway.” The Party for Freedom posted on its website: “Today we face a battle against a corrupt political oligarchy that wants to restrict freedom of speech, and deny patriotic Australians the right to mark the 10nth Cronulla Riots anniversary in Cronulla.
  • (15) But in other cases, it has come with serious problems such as powerful oligarchies that wipe out competition, prevent local innovation, fuel corruption and seek rents.
  • (16) In the 1990s we encountered both anarchy and oligarchy.
  • (17) They desired, rather, that it be lived on a higher level than that of a serf, treated as an inconvenience by a moribund oligarchy.
  • (18) Jeremy Clarkson: big mouth strikes again BBC seeks to limit damage over Clarkson rant Jeremy Clarkson's One Show strike outburst - full text The Jeremy Clarkson moment: populism or oligarchy?
  • (19) And when they say competition, what you're actually left with is four or five – sometimes only three – companies, who barely compete with one another at all but instead operate as an unelected oligarchy.
  • (20) "If management and an existing board take on this power to hire and fire this ceases to be a co-operative and instead becomes little more than a self perpetuating, management-led, oligarchy," said Eyre.