(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.
Peremptory
Definition:
(a.) Precluding debate or expostulation; not admitting of question or appeal; positive; absolute; decisive; conclusive; final.
(a.) Positive in opinion or judgment; decided; dictatorial; dogmatical.
(a.) Firmly determined; unawed.
Example Sentences:
(1) Indeed, brushing up on his people skills may become a priority as although many say he is "nicer" than Boris, he has been criticised for his at times "peremptory" tone.
(2) The newly sacked Trierweiler was widely seen by the public as peremptory and mean, an impression reinforced by the dispatch of a bitchy tweet soon after Hollande became president, undermining her predecessor, Ségolène Royale.
(3) This enjoyment was only heightened by the judge's peremptory dismissal of Rob Wilson's concerns about the matter, a dismissal rather elegantly demolished by Stephen Glover in the Mail.
(4) But it was only in 1988-1989, that authorities give to the local agencies peremptory instructions for the enforcement of the so-called "therapeutical injunction" which the origin is judiciary.
(5) The age of chivalry is dead.” The novel’s theme, deftly laid out in a narrative that flashes backwards and forwards, to and from the 1930s, is the education of six wonderfully distinctive, heartless and romantic 10-year-old girls (Monica, Sandy, Rose, Mary, Jenny, and Eunice) and the covert classroom drama that leads to Miss Brodie’s “betrayal”, her peremptory dismissal from Marcia Blaine by her great enemy, the headmistress, Miss Mackay.
(6) Nonetheless, the extensive condemnation of Mo Yan in the west assumes that writers in the "unfree" world should devote themselves to specific "tasks", most importantly, human rights abuses by their governments – a peremptory apportioning of literary duties that is worthy of Marshal Zhdanov, the hatchet man of socialist realism.
(7) Football fans will be sickened if the industrial scale exploitation of workers is allowed to continue" Sharan Burrow, general secretary of the ITUC, was more peremptory.
(8) Frozen serum and lymphocytes are peremptory for cellular and humoral evaluation during the different phases of anesthesia.
(9) In the words of the local British Legion chairman: "Graham Leonard put a peremptory stop to all that.
(10) The choice of method of contraception in cardiac patients is often peremptory, as combined oestrogen-progesterone preparations and intra uterine devices are often contraindicated.
(11) Witnesses may be called to testify without counsel, and jurors are not disqualified for personal bias via peremptory challenge, as in a criminal trial.
(12) "Reinfeldt got a peremptory handshake with Barack Obama and then he was palmed off with a lunch with vice-president Joe Biden," the source said.