(a.) Pertaining or suited to a dictator; absolute.
(a.) Characteristic of a dictator; imperious; dogmatical; overbearing; as, a dictatorial tone or manner.
Example Sentences:
(1) But concerns about a slowing economy, jobs, civil rights and a lack of progress in the Kurdish peace process appear to have combined with worries that Erdoğan could assume quasi-dictatorial powers to thwart the president’s ambitions.
(2) Even if the move seemed dictatorial in the short term, it served to enshrine a constitution that in the long-term actually curtails Morsi's power – which to the Brotherhood makes his actions well-intentioned, if clumsy.
(3) Supporters of the accused men say their alleged crimes were trumped up by a dictatorial regime which feigned openness during the electoral campaign only to brutally suppress dissent when it saw the scale of public anger.
(4) It was a tragedy suffered by those trapped in a totalitarian and dictatorial system with no jangmadang to turn to.
(5) But to shape the future we need to understand the past.” One might expect that those words were aimed at Peter Thiel, the Facebook board member who has bucked Silicon Valley political orthodoxy by backing Donald Trump’s xenophobic, Islamophobic, sexist, anti-science, and increasingly dictatorial campaign for president.
(6) But the economic success story couldn’t mask the accusations that he was totalitarian and dictatorial – that he, however he could, crushed any political opposition, inside his party and out.
(7) I want to make it very clear that I will never rule this country without your mandate and I will never cheat.” The Gambia is one of Africa’s smallest and least important countries, so its unexpected shift to democracy will not bring political or economic pressure to bear on dictatorial neighbours or more distant nations.
(8) And to help promote this thoroughly anti-democratic measure, the junta has enlisted the judiciary, sullying the very bedrock of democracy.” The prospect of Prayuth’s dictatorial rule being extended indefinitely is not one that is welcomed in Washington.
(9) George Soros's Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa warns that Malawi is heading towards an "authoritarian era" under the "dictatorial whims of one man".
(10) Machar accused his rival of "dictatorial tendencies" and said that members of his Nuer community were being targeted.
(11) But it’s not that I believe those numbers should be dictatorial – we need to have an open discussion.
(12) Viewed in this context, the raiding of NGO offices in Egypt on Thursday is not especially surprising – though, of course, one of the main goals of the revolution was to put an end to such dictatorial practices, and the raiding of 17 NGOs in a single day was unprecedented, even during the Mubarak years.
(13) Man jailed for 30 years in Thailand for insulting the monarchy on Facebook Read more The ruling regime – the National Council for Peace and Order led by prime minister general Prayut Chan-ocha – took power in a coup d’état and promised to restore democracy within a year, but instead “exercised increasingly dictatorial power and continued to systematically repress fundamental rights and freedoms”.
(14) The leader of Karachi’s dominant political party has been accused by a respected former mayor of being an Indian agent and a dictatorial drunkard who has mismanaged the affairs of Pakistan’s biggest city from his base in north London.
(15) But his controlling personality meant some commanders deserted, and his dictatorial leadership prompted the breakaway Ansaru faction, according to a senior security official.
(16) But it is not economics, nor even his alleged dictatorial tendencies, that makes Modi such a polarising figure.
(17) "The conclusion is inescapable that the South African troops were deployed to defend the faltering and dictatorial Bozizé regime."
(18) They were the elite cadre of female bodyguards who surrounded Colonel Muammar Gaddafi for more than 20 years, becoming almost synonymous with his idiosyncratic dictatorial rule.
(19) While the conflict in that country is driven by multiple factors – a dictatorial regime, regional spillovers of extremism, an international community that has shifted between vacillation and interference – there is no doubt that the level of violence in that country is a direct result of decades of arms transfers to the region.
(20) They see it as part of the president’s attempt to acquire quasi-dictatorial powers at the expense of parliament and representative democracy.
Domineering
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Domineer
(a.) Ruling arrogantly; overbearing.
Example Sentences:
(1) Variables included an ego-delay measure obtained from temporal estimations, perceptions of temporal dominance and relatedness obtained from Cottle's Circles Test, Ss' ages, and a measure of long-term posthospital adjustment.
(2) Brilliant, old-fashioned speech, from the days before teleprompters became all-dominant.
(3) In some experiments heart rate and minute ventilation (central vactors) appear to be the dominant cues for rated perceived exertion, while in others, local factors such as blood lactate concentration and muscular discomfort seem to be the prominent cues.
(4) Until recently, the control was thought to be governed by single, dominant genes, located within the I region of the H-2 complex.
(5) In a control study an inert stereoisomer, d-propranolol, did not block the ocular dominance shift.
(6) Pedigree studies have suggested that there may be an inherited predisposition to many apparently nonfamilial colorectal cancers and a genetic model of tumorigenesis in common colorectal cancer has been proposed that includes the activation of dominantly acting oncogenes and the inactivation of growth suppressor genes.
(7) The dilemmas faced by the genetic counsellor are discussed in this variable autosomal dominant condition.
(8) Dominic Fifield Facebook Twitter Pinterest Ravel Morrison, who has been on loan at QPR, may be set for a return to Loftus Road.
(9) Simple cells that are nearly equally dominated by each eye always exhibit strong phase-specific interaction.
(10) Right hemisphere inactivation caused a decrease in the frequency of lateral hypothalamus self-stimulation, whereas with left hemisphere inactivation it increased, which testifies to right hemisphere dominance in self-stimulation reaction.
(11) The association of these defects of teeth and bone was found to be transmitted as an autosomal dominant trait over four generations.
(12) Tumorigenesis is a multistep process involving mutations of dominantly acting proto-oncogenes and mutations and loss-of-function mutations of tumor suppressor genes.
(13) In-vivo data are limited primarily to dominant lethal studies in rats and some in-vivo alkaline elution results.
(14) A more accurate fit of T1 data using a modified Lipari and Szabo approach indicates that internal fast motions dominate the T1 relaxation in glycogen.
(15) Here's Dominic's full story: US unemployment rate drops to lowest level in six years as 288,000 jobs added Michael McKee (@mckonomy) BNP economists say jobless rate would have been 6.8% if not for drop in participation rate May 2, 2014 2.20pm BST ING's Rob Carnell is also struck by the "extraordinary weakness" of US wage growth .
(16) Both types of oral cleft, cleft palate (CP) and cleft lip with or without CP (CLP), segregate in these families together with lower lip pits or fistulae in an autosomal dominant mode with high penetrance estimated to be K = .89 and .99 by different methods.
(17) Four fractions enriched, respectively, in plasma membrane (PM), smooth endoplasmic reticulum (SER), rough endoplasmic reticulum (RER), and mitochondria were isolated from estrogen-dominated rat myometrium.
(18) The effect of the mutation for white belly spot controlled by the dominant gene W on spermatogenesis in mice was examined by experimental cryptorchidism and its surgical reversal.
(19) The controversy about "fasting girls" and the all-dominating diagnosis of neurasthenia may explain the delay in the American interest in the new disorder.
(20) Normally, the small longitudinal (arterioles to venules) gradient of microvascular and perimicrovascular pressures is not a major concern, but in nonuniform disease processes, such as microembolism, longitudinal inhomogeneity, and parallel inhomogeneity are dominant.