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Meanings of dictatorship in English
A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
Synonyms
Examples for "tyranny"
Examples for "tyranny"
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Their economy is in ruins; their political system is an Orwellian tyranny.
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It afflicts the cities; it is a tyranny in the country districts.
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The trouble in Russia just now is the tyranny of the minority.
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Individual accumulation is responsible for crime; crime necessitates laws; laws breed tyranny.
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We talked about the war metaphors and the tyranny of positive thinking.
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A thousand days of despotism are better than one day of anarchy?
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Money, influence and perseverance were her allies; social despotism her only adversary.
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The government of the revolution is the despotism of liberty against tyranny.
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Rome was a despotism under Nero; so she was under the triumvirate.
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No, the despotism has no use for it; you would lose money.
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They simply found new tools and a new path to restoring autocracy.
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They established the outposts of unionism in the wilderness of Industrial autocracy.
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Its truth was a blazing affront in the face of age-old autocracy.
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The Bolsheviks were not fighting tsarist autocracy: that had already been dismantled.
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For the War cannot end till the death-knell of autocracy is sounded.
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The idea of a predominant Power in Europe was part of absolutism.
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He is as sacred in his financial as in his religious absolutism.
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The ardour of rising absolutism is the true cause of the Revocation.
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It resulted in absolutism increasing, with an ever-widening sphere of royal control.
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He began his labors in behalf of absolutism by suppressing the Huguenots.
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Growing political authoritarianism has coincided with greater state dominance over the economy.
2
She is an international symbol for free speech and resistance to authoritarianism.
3
This situation could bode well for the demise of authoritarianism in Zimbabwe.
4
Colonialism also put into place a system of authoritarianism that favored elitism.
5
An advocate of tradition and rigid authoritarianism, she stands firmly against change.
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Religion has influenced totalitarianism, and modern cults have been influenced by totalitarianism.
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Almost 50 years ago, we began a long struggle against aggressive totalitarianism.
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War, totalitarianism and the politics of human oppression are major themes.
4
The Irish Times thought the move was another step towards totalitarianism.
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This is not a matter of totalitarianism; it is a matter of language.
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Until 1573 the misery continued; and the shogunate meanwhile degenerated into insignificance.
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The shogunate itself was reduced to the humiliation of paying tribute to China.
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Nevertheless the Hojo suffered the phantom-shogunate to linger on, until 1333.
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The castles represent the old shogunate, so they've been force-auctioned by the new government.
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Not at least until the shogunate had fallen into decay.
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And you will see it; you will see Caesarism drowned in the very blood it has shed.
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We didn't take into account the fact that the Republic dealt harshly with anyone who practiced Caesarism.
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Blish's Twenty-First Century: The Coming of Caesarism
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But this is rank and undisguised Caesarism.
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What will be surely destroyed is Caesarism.
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We are here because we are against one-man rule, she said.
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Critics say the proposed constitutional changes would lead to one-man rule and undermine basic freedoms.
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This is 29 years of one-man rule, Tsvangirai said.
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Libya has been plunged into turmoil since its 2011 uprising ended Muammar Gaddafi's one-man rule.
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Yet many argue that, even without those changes, Turkey is edging ever closer to one-man rule.
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It didn't require a great mind to see what Stalinism was.
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What I do not understand is her obvious passion for Marxism, Leninism, Stalinism.
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A changed outlook or bitter experience may wean him from Stalinism.
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His experiences will inform his indictment of Stalinism in the book Nineteen Eighty-Four.
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Moral revulsion against Stalinism and the behaviour of its agents in Spain is justified.
Usage of dictatorship in English
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It has been 30 years since the end of the military dictatorship.
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A Franco-German war is therefore, for the Soviet dictatorship, a pathological obsession.
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Some Maldivians viewed the election as a choice between dictatorship and democracy.
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A dictatorship founded on that device might really last a thousand years.
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Indonesia remained a military dictatorship for the rest of the cold war.
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Of course, propaganda can always be changed at will in a dictatorship.
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Conde was elected in 2010 after decades of dictatorship and authoritarian rule.
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Following that were decades of dictatorship, civil war and relentless terrorist attacks.
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It was the beginning of the end of the young Meza dictatorship.
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No dictatorship is a democracy and none contains the seeds of liberty.
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It is the only way to rescue them from the current dictatorship.
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Critics say the congress would institutionalize dictatorship by the ruling Socialist Party.
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Ever since Zia's dictatorship, the soldiers had been inoculated with Islamist ideology.
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Unlike Libya, Syria is not an isolated dictatorship with a pushover army.
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Europe's first single-party dictatorship in the name of the people had emerged.
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Thailand remained under military dictatorship more than a decade after Donovan's departure.
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Translations for dictatorship
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Dictatorship through the time
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