How To Use Gerontocracy In A Sentence
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It is easy to depict them as a complacent gerontocracy immured in its certainties and unwilling to rethink the future.
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This society is a gerontocracy based on obedience to and respect for those who are older than oneself.
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In the gerontocracy that was early America, the Puritans held that living to a ripe old age was a sign from above.
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This person could have represented our interests in the raving gerontocracy that is the city government.
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The retirement of this gerontocracy led to the so-called fifth generation of leaders now in charge of the Party and the country.
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Like many other disciplines, psychology is a gerontocracy.
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You quickly begin to feel that the country is the opposite of Britain: where we're obsessed by the youth of our leaders, Italy is determined to remain a gerontocracy.
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In contrast to India's gerontocracy, there is a worldwide trend for having young leaders.
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Some of your friends are amazed when you say this, but you reason that a gerontocracy can fashion the future for just so long.
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Workers will resent handing over their entire paycheques to fund the gerontocracy and then have to suffer through fogeyish easy listening classics on every radio station.
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The old nobility dominated the officer corps and, since there was no retirement system, gerontocracy prevailed: seniority counted for everything.
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We have to admit that stubborn gerontocracy has been a major obstacle to reforming politics due to the aged politicians' obstinacy and narrow-mindedness.
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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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The author was, of course, the first to depict a totalitarian gerontocracy.
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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.
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This has been referred to as gerontocracy, but it may be preferable to see it as an expression of a link with past generations.
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The current Court is nothing less than a gerontocracy.
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This country's gerontocracy is not so much kinder and gentler as paralytic.
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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.
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Can it lay the ghost of the Roman imperium and become something other than a male gerontocracy?
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If such longtime supporters abandoned ship, surely the gerontocracy in Hanoi was out of touch.
