The region's governments were brutal oligarchies.

该地区的政府是残暴的寡头政治。

He argued that regardless of how democratic a bureaucracy is in theory, in practice, it always tends toward pure oligarchy.

他认为，无论官僚机构理论上多么民，践中，它总是倾向于纯粹的寡头政治。

This group has appointed loyalists to the central bank and finance ministry, and put forward new chiefs for the security service and defence ministry-signs that Mr Yanukovych wants an independent power base beyond the oligarchs who back him now.

亚努科维奇集团把亲安插乌克兰央行和财政部，提出要为安全局和国防部的领导层进行大，标志着亚努科维奇希望摆脱背后支持他的寡头政治人士，建立听命于他的独立权力基础。

The wealth,   popularity and power concentrated on these men turned Rome into an effective oligarchy  in the 50s BC with the emergence of the First Triumvirate featuring Pompey and Caesar alongside  Marcus Crassus, the wealthiest man in Rome.

随着庞培和凯撒与罗马最富有的人马库斯·克拉苏一起出现的第一三巨头的出现，些人身上集中的财富、声望和权力使罗马公元前 50 年代变成了一个有效的寡头政治。