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    dictatorship


    1. Now, there was a spy from the dictatorship sent out to assassinate her


    2. from the dictatorship and later found to be what he had been: a potential


    3. What would result was that the dictatorship


    4. Of course that was a total joke since we lived in a dictatorship run by the priests of the order of St


    5. groomed into his way of dictatorship - his


    6. The past world wars were steeped in the energy of greed and domination, whereas the present circumstances are caused by a growing intolerance towards dictatorship and an authoritative style of governance


    7. “A marriage is a partnership, not a dictatorship


    8. part and parcel of the Soviet Union, the same Soviet dictatorship that challenged the United States for global leadership


    9. It shifted from being a dictatorship to what it liked to call a democracy with blinding speed


    10. But in the end, both Ford and Carter decided the goodwill of a dictatorship was worth more than saving tens of thousands, perhaps more, Asian lives

    11. Marcos, it should be pointed out, had US diplomatic and military support during almost his entire dictatorship


    12. What about buying shares in a known dictatorship?


    13. He died a year later, and direct military dictatorship returned


    14. Bolivia's military dictatorship of Hugo Banzer began in 1971 and lasted until 1978


    15. Chile's military dictatorship came to power directly as a result of Nixon's efforts


    16. Agosto Pinochet's dictatorship killed at least 2,000 and tortured at least 27,000


    17. In all cases, the list of targets was enormously wide, made up mostly of peaceful dissidents and groups a dictatorship just did not like


    18. Folk singer Victor Jara was tortured and murdered by Chile's dictatorship, his body dumped in a slum


    19. ) New York Congressman Ed Koch, later Mayor of New York, was targeted by Uruguayan secret police in retaliation for his proposing to cut off military aid to the dictatorship


    20. It was in Chile that Nixon and Kissinger played the biggest role in Condor, for the dictatorship would never have existed without their direct orders

    21. Strikes ended, not just because they were no longer being paid to strike, but because unions were outlawed by the dictatorship and union leaders imprisoned or executed


    22. Some wealthy elites hated Roosevelt so much they plotted to overthrow him and put in a fascist dictatorship


    23. For all their claims of loving, wanting, and promoting freedom, Libertarian policies have been tried exactly twice, first under the military dictatorship of Chile, where they worsened the lives of most Chileans, enriching elites while others were worse off


    24. Friedman's disciples in the dictatorship gave Chile higher unemployment, more debt, more bankruptcies, a sharp drop in wages, and almost destroyed Chilean public education


    25. Months later, Spain sent a contingent of 1300 soldiers to help in the reconstruction of that country which had just rid itself of a perverse and bloody dictatorship


    26. The dictatorship of Argentina cut off military ties to the US and turned to Britain and Israel for weapons and military training


    27. Reagan overturned the weapons ban, publicly praising the dictatorship until the invasion of the Falkland Islands


    28. The military dictatorship did not end until five years after Carter's presidency


    29. The Balaguer dictatorship of twelve years that arrested and killed many dissidents was ended by this election


    30. The only real success Carter could point to was getting the dictatorship to investigate the murder of four American nuns killed by Salvadoran soldiers

    31. In Honduras, Carter successfully pressured the dictatorship into allowing elections, though the left was barred from taking part


    32. Honduran civilian leaders were overthrown and the military dictatorship began again


    33. While it is certainly repressive, even today it is still more democratic than the Shah's dictatorship was


    34. In Nicaragua, the Carter administration called publicly for the end of the Somoza family dictatorship the US government had put in power and supported for over 40 years


    35. But almost all credit for ending Somoza's dictatorship goes to the popular Sandinista movement, a wide coalition of Nicaraguan business, churches, farmers, labor unions, and students


    36. In Pakistan the military dictatorship released 11,000 political prisoners because of pressure from Carter


    37. A few conservatives blame Carter for the later dictatorship of Robert Mugabe


    38. But this dictatorship did not arise until after Carter was out of office


    39. Iraq remains a dictatorship instead of an extremely limited corrupt attempt at democracy


    40. In 1994 he negotiated an agreement in Haiti that led to the dictatorship stepping down, avoiding a US invasion under Clinton

    41. For three generations, the Confederacy’s ever tightening dictatorship uses terror and repression against Blacks, Natives, Mexicans, Jews, Catholics, Mormons, Germans, Cajuns, and women to stay in power


    42. Instead the papacy, like an inchworm, had slowly drawn to itself, all authority within the church, to become a “clerical dictatorship


    43. finally collapse, which is always followed by a dictatorship


    44. See some signalling examples: legislation change that impedes the continuity of the Project in the country; political retrocession; economic crisis, dictatorship, low reliability level and high popular dissatisfaction


    45. His economic ideas couldn’t sell in the real world without a dictatorship and a secret police to bolster them


    46. Many times they have manipulated third world countries by displacing democracy with a dictatorship


    47. Monotheism is actual y a rigid pattern for dictatorship and —


    48. The sights and sounds of the arts as promoted by the critics demonstrate a kind of spontaneous dictatorship of political correctness


    49. fighting the North, is made up of a Christian coalition that reject the Islam dictatorship


    50. Underhandedness, the sword, dictatorship will be his methods of choice to lead, methods that could easily lead to the destruction of the organization











































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    Synonyms for "dictatorship"

    absolutism authoritarianism caesarism despotism dictatorship monocracy one-man rule shogunate stalinism totalitarianism tyranny cruelty hardness domination injustice coercion oppression

    "dictatorship" definitions

    a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)