| 单词 | gerontocracy |
| 例句 | This is the curse of Italy: a gerontocracy so venerated that no one under the age of 60 gets a look-in. When is a chair not a chair? 2010-04-19T12:12:00Z What citizens of our gerontocracy won’t recognize is the general youthfulness of the novel’s key political figures. Stories of Then That Still Hold Up Now 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z Until then, they say, the west was still in the grip of the sclerotic gerontocracy represented by Eisenhower and Khrushchev. October 1962: the month that modern culture was born 2012-09-29T22:12:23Z But by the second decade of this century, the gerontocracy was no longer sustainable. ‘MBS’ Chronicles the Shockingly Young, Powerful and Ruthless Saudi Crown Prince 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z Along with decrepit presidents and creepy deathwatches around senators and Supreme Court justices, chaotic clown-show debates over fiscal policy are part of what you get when a democracy becomes a gerontocracy. How gerontocracy explains the Matt Gaetz clown show | Ross Douthat 2023-10-06T04:00:00Z But gerontocracy per se is not the problem — it's how it's shaped by race, gender and class, along with other issues leftists focus on when we're not being suckered into disinformation debates. Leftists, save yourselves! It's a bad moment for nihilistic self-indulgence 2023-09-30T04:00:00Z She became an avatar for America's growing frustration with its "gerontocracy" - a political leadership dominated by politicians in their 70s and 80s. Obituary: Dianne Feinstein, trailblazing senator who defied CIA and White House 2023-09-29T04:00:00Z A range of voters who spoke to the BBC say they have concerns about what some have called America's gerontocracy. Are US politicians too old? Voters weigh in 2023-09-02T04:00:00Z The House was once a bastion of gerontocracy. It's not just Feinstein: McConnell episode exposes age, vulnerability of U.S. leadership 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z The cry is heard that America has become a “gerontocracy.” Column: In praise of gerontocracy 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z The question of gerontocracy is admittedly more complicated. Leftists, save yourselves! It's a bad moment for nihilistic self-indulgence 2023-09-30T04:00:00Z And countries that find a way to make this transfer successfully will end up far ahead of those that just sink into gerontocracy. 5 rules for an aging world 2023-01-23T05:00:00Z It seems like our government is something like a gerontocracy. Are US politicians too old? Voters weigh in 2023-09-02T04:00:00Z One criticism of gerontocracy is that senior citizens are incapable of thinking toward the future, because they won't be around for it. Will young people save American democracy from Republican authoritarians? It's not that simple 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z The gerontocracy critique also threatens to deprive us of our most experienced leaders. Column: In praise of gerontocracy 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z But again, gerontocracy per se is not the problem. Leftists, save yourselves! It's a bad moment for nihilistic self-indulgence 2023-09-30T04:00:00Z While Qatar viewed their arrival as a sea change in the gerontocracies gripping the Mideast, other Gulf Arab nations saw the protests as a threat to their autocratic and hereditary rule. Qatar to open Mideast’s first World Cup before leaders, fans 2022-11-20T05:00:00Z Healthy and strong, he stood out among the gerontocracy, a full quarter of a century younger than the 20 people ranked ahead of him. Mikhail S. Gorbachev, Reformist Soviet Leader, Is Dead at 91 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z For her allies now scenting victory, the 45-year-old frontrunner would represent the radical political shift that Italy needs, given its long economic stagnation and a society seen as a gerontocracy. Giorgia Meloni: Far-right leader who's favourite to run Italy 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z Claims that a political gerontocracy is somehow undermining American democracy — the theme of so much political navel-gazing — simply don’t hold water. Column: In praise of gerontocracy 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z It's the nature of our specific gerontocracy, shaped by race, gender, class and the other issues that leftists rightly focus on, at least when we're not being suckered into disinformation-driven debates. Leftists, save yourselves! It's a bad moment for nihilistic self-indulgence 2023-09-30T04:00:00Z Still, gerontocracy is less concerning in collective legislative and judicial bodies than it is in the one-person presidency, where the proverbial buck stops — but official duty never really does. Opinion | The presidency should be no office for old men (or women) 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z “But I think certainly there is some angst in the country right now over the gerontocracy.” ‘Governors Are the C.E.O.s’: State Leaders Weigh Their Might 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z And while there is no doubt that a disproportionate number of those in power — whether in government, business or academia — are older than the general population, does this mean we live in a gerontocracy? No, Elon Musk, America isn't a "gerontocracy": The real issue is massive wealth inequality 2022-06-18T04:00:00Z The proper reaction to anyone who tries to tell you that our gerontocracy is a political problem is to ask what more relevant truth they’re trying to conceal. Column: In praise of gerontocracy 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z Those aren't gerontocracies as such, since power is distributed in a variety of ways, and the power of elders is usually advisory, not direct or managerial. Leftists, save yourselves! It's a bad moment for nihilistic self-indulgence 2023-09-30T04:00:00Z I take exception to Charles Lane’s contention in his Nov. 10 op-ed, “Biden leads a gerontocracy,” that “patience” and “calm” are “old-fashioned words.” Opinion | Readers critique The Post: Winners and losers all around 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z A pessimist could view this Washington gerontocracy as yet another symptom of national decline, uncomfortably reminiscent of the ailing Soviet general secretaries who died off seriatim in the Cold War’s final years. Opinion | Biden leads a gerontocracy that could bode ill — or good! — for democracy 2020-11-08T05:00:00Z But Musk's reasoning about why this is the case, his proposed solution and even the idea that we live in a gerontocracy are all faulty. No, Elon Musk, America isn't a "gerontocracy": The real issue is massive wealth inequality 2022-06-18T04:00:00Z It’s also totally obvious, and a natural feature of America’s recent slide toward gerontocracy. How to Cover a Sick Old Man 2020-10-04T04:00:00Z But don't let that fool you: They're still a total mess, internally divided, ideologically rudderless, committed to symbolism over substance and run by a feeble and delusional gerontocracy. The Democrats' dilemma: Supposedly they're winning — but their leaders keep on losing 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z In a gerontocracy like Italy, proposals to encourage the elderly to stay inside would mean shutting away much of the political, academic, industrial and business elite. Coronavirus Depletes the Keepers of Europe’s Memory 2020-06-06T04:00:00Z At first glance, it may seem strange that America is run by a Brezhnev-age gerontocracy. When Brezhnev comes to America: gerontocracy in action 2020-03-22T04:00:00Z Second, the recurring theme in many discussions of gerontocracy is that elderly people are incapable of adapting to changing realities. No, Elon Musk, America isn't a "gerontocracy": The real issue is massive wealth inequality 2022-06-18T04:00:00Z But many other tribes took a very different approach: they were gerontocracies, in which the young do as the old say. What happens when we're too old to be 'useful'? 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z He was bright and ambitious and, by the time he was in his twenties, bristled at the restrictions imposed on citizens by the country’s decaying gerontocracy. The Kremlin’s Creative Director 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z They represent what America looks like today far better than the pale, greying gerontocracy that rules the country. Here's the real reason Trump is attacking 'the squad': he's scared | Joshua Leifer 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z How can a society that worships youth on the job and in the culture turn into what Malcolm Harris, author of “Kids These Days,” calls a political gerontocracy? Opinion | Why don’t voters care if a presidential candidate is old? 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z “These are minimal demands. This country is governed by a gerontocracy that is immobile.” Algeria Protests Grow Against President Bouteflika, Ailing and Out of Sight 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z But a Sanders-Biden struggle would only support the widespread impression, which is not false, that the Democratic Party represents a diverse and disproportionately young coalition of voters but is led by a largely white gerontocracy. First wave of 2020 panic: Is Biden vs. Bernie really the best Democrats can do? 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z But perhaps most significant is the fact that gerontocracies prevent new ideas from entering into the small elite that makes national policy. America has become a gerontocracy. We must change that | Daniel Bessner and David Austin Walsh 2018-10-06T04:00:00Z “From the point of view of the outside world, there is something good to be said about a Kremlin gerontocracy,” The New York Times said in a 1976 editorial. Malaysia’s new leader shows that 92 isn’t really so old 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z Ronald Reagan’s soaring anti-communist rhetoric, terming the Soviet bloc an “evil empire”, inspired freedom-lovers on both sides of the Iron Curtain, but panicked the Politburo gerontocracy. The world almost ended in 1983 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z It’s also what wins elections - if only the gerontocracy that is the Democratic congressional leadership would step aside and allow a new generation to take charge. Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent editorials 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z His government is now widely seen as a corrupt gerontocracy. Opinion | It’s Time for Mahmoud Abbas to Go 2018-01-27T05:00:00Z And, unlike their Republican counterparts, who have established term limits on committee chairmanships to ensure a steady rotation of leadership, the Democrats have done nothing to address gerontocracy. America has become a gerontocracy. We must change that | Daniel Bessner and David Austin Walsh 2018-10-06T04:00:00Z His rise to power in 2013, at the age of 33, offered a stark contrast with the gerontocracy of Saudi Arabia, where rulers clung to their thrones till reaching their deathbeds. Tiny, Wealthy Qatar Goes Its Own Way, and Pays for It 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z Most alarming is American democracy’s becoming a gerontocracy. Opinion | The thing America strives for most? Complacency. 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z He would tell his friend about a “gerontocracy” – rule by old people – of army generals who were “born under Stalin” and kept the nation submerged in isolationist and repressive rule. Revealed: Kim Jong-nam was gripped by fear and paranoia, says friend 2017-02-20T05:00:00Z Younger Cubans are more likely to rail against gerontocracy, repression and lost opportunity. Fidel Castro, Cuba’s revolutionary leader, dies aged 90 2016-11-26T05:00:00Z A century and a half of colonial rule had built Hong Kong as a freewheeling, free-market metropolis; China was an authoritarian gerontocracy with a plain record of squashing dissent with lethal force. Hong Kong's Anxieties Mount in Face of China's Encroachment 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z Biden, who at 72 shares the Democrats’ gerontocracy problem, is riding a wave of deserved sympathy. Why Clinton remains inevitable — almost 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z Former House speaker and Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich said that Clinton is vulnerable and that the Democrats look like “a gerontocracy.” Facing an eroding image, Hillary Clinton goes on offense against GOP 2015-08-09T04:00:00Z “They kept dying on me,” he said of the Moscow gerontocracy. You're Remembering Reagan Wrong 2015-05-16T04:00:00Z Despite the succession plan for Abdullah, a bigger question looming in Saudi Arabia’s future is the royal gerontocracy. Saudi King, 90, Hospitalized; Pneumonia Is Diagnosed 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z This opening exists because the gerontocracy that rules the progressive Democratic Party today blithely takes minorities and blue-collar workers for granted. Obama and the Democrats Don't Get American Voters 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z U.S. officials believe the attack on the students reflected desperation on the part of the country’s gerontocracy, led by Deng Xiaoping. Read TIME's 1989 cover story about the Tiananmen Square massacre 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z Young researchers would like to see an end to this gerontocracy. Ukraine’s science in turmoil 2014-04-02T17:20:22.119Z Their demand, however, is not for an overthrow of the system, but for better management than that provided by the current gerontocracy. With president ailing, Algeria prepares for end of an era 2013-05-19T15:13:13Z About 21 percent of young people are unemployed, the International Monetary Fund says, and many are impatient with the gerontocracy ruling a country where jobs, wages and housing are urgent concerns. Algerian president in France for medical tests after minor stroke 2013-04-28T03:56:05Z About 21 percent of young people are unemployed, the International Monetary Fund says, and many are impatient with the gerontocracy ruling a country where jobs, wages and housing are the urgent concerns. Algerian President Bouteflika has health crisis: TV 2013-04-27T19:38:53Z But whoever he may be, the 266th pope will inherit a gerontocracy obsessed with turf and Italian politics, uninterested in basic management practices and hostile to reforms. Pope Benedict’s leaked documents show fractured Vatican full of rivalries 2013-02-16T23:38:02Z But Italy's gerontocracy, he adds, is a symptom, not the cause, of the country's malaise. Little fresh on Italian election menu 2013-01-10T00:41:23Z About 21 percent of young people are unemployed, the IMF says, and many are impatient with the gerontocracy ruling a country where jobs, wages and housing are the urgent concerns. Algeria awaits change after 50 years under ruling party 2012-10-16T11:35:40Z Ri is only 69, younger than most of North Korea's gerontocracy. North Korea’s top soldier: A diplomatic illness? 2012-07-16T11:35:24Z The British keep such clubs exclusively for the Neanderthal gerontocracy of Colonel Blimps. The euro in crisis: Groping towards Grexit 2012-05-15T00:02:08Z The rest of the developed world is looking at a gerontocracy, but we’re looking at a youth bulge. Economix: Why Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Wants to Run the World Bank 2012-04-03T18:57:10Z Italy has always been something of a gerontocracy, but this tendency has worsened considerable in recent times. Silvio Berlusconi may have screwed Europe ? not just Italy 2011-07-13T17:30:01Z The current crop of politicians - Italy's gerontocracy - remains trapped in the post-war division between left and right, with its provincial loyalties to family, city and region. Bloody nose 2011-06-13T18:19:14Z Yet it is run by “a gerontocracy whose behavior exemplifies the complete opposite.” Letter From Europe: A Reasonable Expectation of Honesty 2011-06-10T12:00:56Z Who would have thought a video game named after Sepp Blatter's lakeside gerontocracy would feature so tellingly in the story of a cricketer's cry for help? Amateur psychologists to be avoided in delicate Michael Yardy debate 2011-03-27T00:08:02Z Analysts say the ruling Al Saud family, which founded the kingdom with the help of Wahhabi clerics in 1932, needs to promote younger princes to dispel the image of gerontocracy. Saudi king to make U.S. trip on Monday over health 2010-11-21T13:51:00Z Italians have a word for the problem: gerontocracy, or rule by the elderly. Arrivederci, Italia: Why Young Italians Are Leaving 2010-10-08T17:40:00Z Early society is dominated by the elders; its practices and customs have been determined by them and, in the most primitive society, government is nothing but a gerontocracy, a government of old men. Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86 Their deliberative assembly answers to the senate of later times: if we had to coin a word for such a government of elders we might call it a gerontocracy. The Golden Bough |
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