1. A handful of plutocratic investors, each owning more than a thousand shares, determined the policies of the corporation.

2. Ultimately, the plutocratic takeover of rural America has a downside for the wealthy too.

3. Its leader was "Red" Ken Livingstone; some 25 years on, now mayor, he sings the praises of London's financial-services industry and is pals with New York's plutocratic leader, Michael Bloomberg.

4. One of the most cheering pieces of news recently is that Britain and Germany are working together on a European plan to put the squeeze on Monaco, whither so many plutocratic tax-dodgers scuttle.

5. She seems caught in a loveless marriage with a rather cold and distant plutocratic husband.

6. A third argument is that inequality perverts politics, with Wall Street's influence in Washington often cited as exhibit A of the unhealthy clout of a plutocratic elite.

7. Nkrumah, Ghana's first president, writes that poor countries may be nominally free, but they continue to be manipulated from abroad by powerful corporate and plutocratic elites.

8. This makes no sense—there's a yawning chasm between the professional and the plutocratic classes, and the tax system should reflect that.