Gerontocracy in a sentence as a noun

By pure coincidence our plutocracy is also a gerontocracy.

Traditional forms of success usually involve some degree of gerontocracy.

In the gerontocracy that is government bureaucracy and politics, pretty much.

The problem is that the lengthening of youth means that it's easier for the ruling gerontocracy to remember the pathways to rebellious ideology, and board that up.

In your own words, the Church is a gerontocracy wielding enormous wealth and therefore power, dodging taxes, and siphoning funds intended for charitable purposes.

I for myself am a little let-down by how many HNers would prefer to live indefinitely as potential economic slaves under a gerontocracy only because everyone is so afraid of dying.

I like the idea of distinguishing those engineers who go above and beyond and really create something new. However it can also become a gerontocracy easily and can limit the adoption of innovative ideas in the long run."Might it be the case that a technology company itself has a limited lifetime?

' Insofar as copyright terms exceed the average human lifetime, they are effectively endless for all but the longest-lived members of society, promoting a creative gerontocracy.

Now tuition at many places is more than the national median household income, and the most of the faculty is made up of very poorly paid adjutants with a thin gerontocracy layer of tenured professors taking up most of the faculty salary pie.

This is from the article:>"When the journalist Mouloud Achour, the rapper Mokless and I published a column in the French daily Libration last September, arguing that France was a decrepit, overcentralized gerontocracy and that French youths should pack their bags and go find better opportunities elsewhere in the world, it caused an uproar.

Gerontocracy definitions

noun

a political system governed by old men