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gerontocracy

NOUN
  1. a political system governed by old men

How To Use gerontocracy In A Sentence

  • We have to admit that stubborn gerontocracy has been a major obstacle to reforming politics due to the aged politicians' obstinacy and narrow-mindedness.
  • If such longtime supporters abandoned ship, surely the gerontocracy in Hanoi was out of touch.
  • Can it lay the ghost of the Roman imperium and become something other than a male gerontocracy?
  • If he succeeds, it would spell the end of the narrow-based gerontocracy that has dominated French political life for the last generation and could usher in real change.
  • This country's gerontocracy is not so much kinder and gentler as paralytic.
  • The current Court is nothing less than a gerontocracy.
  • This has been referred to as gerontocracy, but it may be preferable to see it as an expression of a link with past generations.
  • For the citizens of China, Indonesia, and Russia, which together account for over 1/4 of the world's population, a sickly gerontocracy means perpetual speculation and uncertainty.
  • The author was, of course, the first to depict a totalitarian gerontocracy.
  • Niuean society is a gerontocracy based on obedience to and respect for those who are older than oneself, with special accord being given to males and those who are first-borns.
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