Sentence examples for called oligarchs from inspiring English sources

In Russia, they are called oligarchs; here they are part and parcel of Congress & Co.

Why aren't these executives called oligarchs, as is done in Russia?

In an apparent reference to the Russian businessmen often called oligarchs, who converted their rubles into dollars and shipped them out of the country just before the I.M.F. and Treasury effort failed, he said: "In the world of fungible money, if you don't hold on to your money until its converted into something tangible, you are likely to lose it.

Waitress Yuli took one breakfast dish, called oligarch's autumn (buckwheat, scrambled eggs, yogurt, cream, fennel and a hot Yemenite dip), revamped it with tahini and nuts and renamed it Yuli's Spring.

There are probably about a hundred people you could call oligarchs, she thought, maybe a few more you could call top-class spies – and yet there are around 144 million people you could call Russian.

If either TNK-BP deal is finished, it would open a new chapter in the history of how the Kremlin and the post-Soviet clique of the ultrarich called the oligarchs do business together.

This group of men called the oligarchs were beginning to set up business and clans.

Even if the president were more courageous, even if he identified more strongly with the downtrodden, the power imbalance in our society would still be roughly what it is, and Obama would either be dancing to a tune called by oligarchs or getting nothing done.

Blavatnik and other partners, including the oligarch Mikhail Fridman (Blavatnik does not like being called an oligarch himself), then bought the Russian oil company TNK.

Blavatnik now lives mostly in London and New York, and his public-relations people strenuously object when he is called an oligarch.

Some of the questioning of Mr Poroshenko, a billionaire businessman who dislikes being called an oligarch, was personal.