(n.) The office, or the term of office, of a dictator; hence, absolute power.
Example Sentences:
(1) How can the CHOGM leaders condemn the dictatorship of Musharraf but happily wine and dine with Museveni?
(2) My rule of thumb is that if you see a commentator or politician praising a dictatorship, plutocrat or corporation, the best course is to assume that they have been got at unless they can prove otherwise.
(3) What goes on in The Handmaid’s Tale [the overthrow of the US government by a theocratic dictatorship that suppresses the rights of women] is actually confined to what used to be the United States.
(4) Resisting dictatorships is more worthwhile than accepting them and thinking things will change by themselves.” Asked if the suffering for a majority of South Sudanese citizens could be stopped if Machar and his colleagues gave up the fight, the rebel leader says “giving up would be irresponsible” and that “history would not forgive him” for it.
(5) As a result of the restrictive reproductive health policies enforced under the 25-year Ceausescu dictatorship, Romania ended the 1980s with the highest recorded maternal mortality of any country in Europe--159 deaths per 100,000 live births in 1989.
(6) They "have joined the long list of Americans and others used by the Kim family dictatorship for political advantage", Bolton wrote in the New York Daily News.
(7) 'Azerbaijan is turning into a dictatorship – we shouldn't fall for its caviar diplomacy' Read more The crowded courtroom was growing increasing stifling as the air-conditioner could not cope with mid-August heat.
(8) They accused the decree of attempting to topple the legal state, make Morsi a God whose decisions cannot be reviewed and build a dictatorship unlike any other Egypt has ever witnessed.
(9) Pervitin allowed the individual to function in the dictatorship.
(10) The only real black spot was that a cowardly Britain stood by in the 1930s and allowed Hitler and Mussolini to help General Franco win the Spanish civil war , pushing it into dictatorship and encouraging Nazi Germany to launch the second world war.
(11) The fact that it failed is related to the atomised society left behind by 40 years of the most brutal and erratic of dictatorships.
(12) Iranians finally rose up and proclaimed a constitution, but Russian forces bombed parliament and re-imposed royal dictatorship.
(13) Polls opened at 4am across the country, which suffered decades of army-led dictatorship followed by a stumbling reform process.
(14) Of the Iraqi people, groaning under years of dictatorship.
(15) He admired the demagogic black separatist Louis Farrakhan for his insistence that blacks and whites could never live together, and the dictatorships of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi and Ayatollah Khomeini for their hatred of Jews.
(16) He said his father had been born at a difficult time – a reference to the dictatorship in Portugal – and had moved to France to provide a better life for his family.
(17) Belarus – often referred to as "the last dictatorship in the heart of Europe" – has been run for 16 years by Lukashenko, the 56-year-old strongman who has routinely crushed political dissent.
(18) While the US is dominated by big oil and big money, China is run by big hydro and big brother – a dictatorship of engineers.
(19) Data released this morning showed the jobless rate has hit 24.6% – the highest level since records began in the mid-1970s (following the end of the Franco dictatorship).
(20) Maathai was clubbed unconscious by police in 1992 while pressing for the release of political prisoners, the scrapping of a planned sixty-storey building in Nairobi's Uhuru Park and the abolition of single-party dictatorship in Kenya.
Junta
Definition:
(n.) A council; a convention; a tribunal; an assembly; esp., the grand council of state in Spain.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Palme D’Or-winning Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul has said he does not want his new film to be screened in in his home country, for fear of the reaction of the ruling military junta.
(2) The drafting processes will start again, with the junta picking a new 21-member committee.
(3) He has been held without charges since his arrest on 5 June but has been informed that under martial law he faces up to 14 years in prison on possible charges of inciting unrest, violating cyber laws and defying the junta's orders.
(4) #18ogr #Syntagma #Greece October 18, 2012 1.03pm BST This photo from Syntagma Square shows "Junta HQ" sprayed on the steps of the Parliament building, alongside a man selling gas masks (with thanks to Asteris Masouras , who is also tweeting from the scene).
(5) On Tuesday the junta released so-called "propaganda" footage of five detainees, one of whom was Jatuporn.
(6) The announcement came as Alaa Abd El Fattah , the jailed Egyptian revolutionary who has become a rallying figure for those opposed to the junta, had his appeal against detention refused by a military court.
(7) An unrepentant admirer of the military junta in power until 1974, Michaloliakos, who founded Golden Dawn in the early 1980s, stands accused of running a paramilitary operation that systematically attacked migrants, leftists and gay people.
(8) On Thursday activists camping outside St Paul's Cathedral in London conducted a live video link with anti-regime protesters in Syria, while plans are under way for a solidarity rally on Saturday in support of Egyptians being held by the junta.
(9) The new complementary constitutional declaration transfers some powers reserved for the president to the ruling military junta, the supreme council of the armed forces (Scaf), causing the Muslim Brotherhood to doubt whether the transfer of power will happen as expected at the end of the month.
(10) There has been no change in the past five years,” he said, when asked about sweeping political reforms implemented by the quasi-civilian government that took over from the military junta.
(11) The junta has spoken of holding elections in 2015, but no date has been set.
(12) Opponents of the Burmese junta, which has ruled with an iron fist since 1962, say Yettaw's stunt has been exploited to keep Aung San Suu Kyi out of the public eye during the elections.
(13) Some 8,000 policemen were seconded to patrol the boulevards of Athens as a sea of Greeks paid tribute to those killed when the military junta sent a tank crashing through the polytechnic's gates to repress a student revolt.
(14) But in a worrying step towards greater censorship, the junta announced on Wednesday that it would establish a "national internet gateway" to better monitor websites and social media platforms, and told local media it would be requesting Facebook, YouTube and the chat application Line to ban user accounts with "illegal" content, the news portal Prachatai reported .
(15) The official, noting that the junta had been in power for more than four decades, said: "I have to stress we're going into this with eyes wide open.
(16) While the junta has indicated that it considers almost any criticism of its actions to be potentially destabilising, such language usually refers to cases of criticism of the monarchy.
(17) "Now everyone knows how each other feels and that they do not want the country and everything to be damaged further," he was filmed saying – in reference, it seems, to the junta's desire that detainees reflect on their political standpoints.
(18) Cherry says the junta’s “request” that media outlets determine their own limits when reporting on the military government is more damaging.
(19) Each Sputnik hub will employ between 30 and 80 staff members, and an expanded team of 100 will reportedly work in the office in the Ukrainian capital Kiev, where a new government that Russian state media decried as a “fascist junta” has adopted an association agreement with the European Union and is fighting a simmering conflict with Russia-backed rebels in the country’s east .
(20) Deep down, the junta knows that its power rests not on legitimacy but on the barrel of guns and the threat of arbitrary detention that is increasingly turning Thailand to Juntaland.