Meanings of dictatorial power in English

Upon that point Holland has absolutely dictatorial power at the present moment.

That the consuls were endowed with dictatorial power for the emergency, availed little.

Indeed, it was more absolute than the dictatorial power that Rousseau had outlined.

On the 6th of January the Senate passed the decree investing the Consuls with dictatorial power.

Young soon had occasion to make practical use of the dictatorial power that he had assumed.

The wish was earnestly expressed that Napoleon would promptly punish them by his own dictatorial power.

These justices were invested with almost dictatorial power.

From this time Jellacic held dictatorial power.

Pompey was invested with dictatorial power for three years over the Mediterranean and all its coasts for fifty miles inland.

And we are as fiercely jealous of coercive or dictatorial power within our own nation as of aggression from without.

Politics Mads for it... A Royal Affair, with Mads Mikkelsen, centre Struensee rises to a position of almost dictatorial power at court.

The Senate has clothed the consuls and other magistrates with dictatorial power; they are about to make Lucius Domitius proconsul of Gaul.

The Chinese president dissolved his parliament and assumed dictatorial power, promising to resign it when the people were trained in political knowledge.

To secure energy and promptitude in their measures, they invested Klopicki, after the manner of the Romans of old, with dictatorial power.

Possessing dictatorial power in two provinces, vast influences in the other fifteen, nothing could be easier for him than to betray his country.

The stern old man used his dictatorial power quite as much to crush the tribunes at home as to conquer the enemies abroad.