adjective [oft adverb ADJECTIVE] If someone has a life-threatening illness or is in a life-threatening situation, there is a strong possibility that the illness or the situation will kill them. Caitlin was born with a life-threatening heart abnormality.
In their writings, Plato and Aristotle described and analyzed the state in terms of. autocracy, oligarchy, and democracyâthe rule of one, several, or many. Both Plato and. Aristotle advocated the type of government that was ruled by an educated elite, that is, an aristocracy; however, throughout the city-states of Greece they observed all forms of. government. Still used today, these categories are outlined below.
Forms of Government. It has been suggested that every government which has ever existed has been a prime example of kakistocracy, or the rule of the worst, but this list of 169 different types of government suggests that that might be a bit too simplistic.