(n.) The governor of a province in ancient Persia; hence, a petty autocrat despot.
Example Sentences:
(1) Britain continues, in effect, to turn a blind eye to Saudi’s human rights abuses, its appalling record of judicial executions, and its repression and jailing of human rights campaigners in its Bahrain satrap.
(2) With Akhmad gone, Putin had a vacancy for a Chechen satrap, and Ramzan was perfect for the role.
(3) Martin Bormann (1900-45): Hitler's party deputy and private secretary was one of the most powerful and sinister Nazi satraps, tried and condemned to death in his absence at Nuremberg.
(4) Even Britain, Washington's most loyal satrap, has let it be known that it will not be left "holding the baby" in Helmand province as others pull out.
(5) Given what we now know about how the US and its satraps have been abusing their privileged position in the global infrastructure, the idea that the western powers can be allowed to continue to control it has become untenable.
Satrapy
Definition:
(n.) The government or jurisdiction of a satrap; a principality.
Example Sentences:
(1) I’ve been discovering so much that, at times, I’ve felt like my head was about to explode … I decided to start a feminist book club, as I want to share what I’m learning and hear your thoughts too.” Our Shared Shelf now has around 150,000 members on Goodreads , with titles discussed by the group including Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis, Caitlin Moran’s How to Be a Woman, Alice Walker’s The Color Purple and Gloria Steinem’s My Life on the Road.
(2) Satrapi decided the comic book would be her chosen form.
(3) It's not surprising that the teenage Satrapi lost her way in Europe.
(4) T he point,” says cartoonist Jeff Smith, whose multiple award-winning comic Bone was one of the books that parents tried hardest to ban in America last year , “is that they are trying to take away someone else’s ability to choose what they want to read, and you can’t do that.” Smith was speaking as the forces of free speech mobilised in the US for Banned Books Week , the annual festival that opens on 21 September and which, in the wake of attacks on acclaimed books from Bone to Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home and Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis , is taking a special focus on comics and graphic novels this year.
(5) They have to give a better explanation," said Satrapi.
(6) (Satrapi herself speaks six languages - Farsi, French, German, English, Swedish, Italian.)
(7) Persepolis has been dismissed by the Iranian authorities as Islamophobic, but Satrapi says this is ridiculous - she is not a political animal or a religious commentator, she is an artist.
(8) Moreover, suggest many academics, the duo ultimately intended to help rightwing Christian Phalangists crush Muslim rivals, and to establish a pro-Israeli satrapy over all of Lebanon.
(9) Iranian author Marjane Satrapi's acclaimed graphic memoir Persepolis has been removed from classrooms in Chicago in a move which has been condemned as "Orwellian".
(10) "The title character of Satrapi's book is herself the age of junior high-school students, and her description of her real-life experiences might well have special relevance to them," states the letter from the National Coalition Against Censorship, the Comic Book Legal Defence Fund, American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression, Association of American Publishers, the PEN America Centre and the National Council of Teachers of English.
(11) Satrapi, 38, is the author of Persepolis, a graphic memoir recounting her childhood in Iran, the overthrow of the corrupt Shah, the terror of the Khomeini years, the war with Iraq, the refuge she sought in Europe, and her painful path to adulthood.
(12) Marjane Satrapi gusts into the room like a hurricane.
(13) In its annual 2013-2014 report on challenged or banned books, the ALA notes the case of students in Chicago public schools who launched a “media campaign” when Marjane Satrapi’s graphic novel Persepolis was removed for “graphic illustrations and offensive language”.
(14) For its part, Iran must know, or should know, that the Sunni Arab world cannot be transformed into a series of satrapies subservient to Tehran.
(15) He felt instinctively the need to shake the place out of its long gloom and cheer up his depressed compatriots by celebrating with some show and style the overthrow of the dour and philistine satrapy that had preserved their isolation.
(16) Satrapi was born in 1969 in Rasht, near the Caspian Sea, and grew up in Tehran, where her father was an engineer and her mother a dress designer.
(17) This was underlined by the British decision to build a naval base in Bahrain , a de facto Saudi satrapy.
(18) 7 November in US and UK The Voices Poulet aux Prunes (Chicken With Plums), Satrapi's most recent The new film from Marjene Satrapi, the director of Persepolis and Chicken with Plums.
(19) Satrapi herself, speaking to the Chicago Tribune , said the restriction was "shameful", and dismissed the CPS's concerns about what it had described as "powerful images of torture".
(20) Satrapi, who has lived in Paris for 12 years, says there is so much to fear in today's world - the potential for nuclear weapons in Iran, the actuality of nuclear weapons in the US; the blind faith of both Bush and Iran's president Ahmadinejad, who trust more in God than political process.