How to Use dictatorship in a Sentence

dictatorship

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  • The country suffered for many years under his dictatorship.
  • His enemies accused him of establishing a dictatorship.
  • In 1964, the sixth year of the dictatorship, Juanita fled to the United States.
    — Nr Editors, National Review, 15 Dec. 2023
  • Yet even if the Whites had won, their supreme ruler might well have imposed a dictatorship of his own.
    — Adam Hochschild, The Atlantic, 7 Oct. 2022
  • The downfall of the dictatorship in Tehran would be a particular boon — to the whole world.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 2 Oct. 2024
  • The dictatorship in Beijing is a curse upon the world, and a curse upon the Chinese.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 22 July 2022
  • Or in the case of this shovel-as-rifle business, the topic is the oddness of life in Belarus, a dictatorship a mere 150 miles to the north.
    — New York Times, 1 July 2022
  • That sounds like some tin horn third world dictatorship.
    — ABC News, 8 Jan. 2023
  • Because the dictatorship sees both the anthem and the flag as symbols of the opposition.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 27 Nov. 2023
  • In Mullen’s view, the system that served the band well for so long has now become more of a benevolent dictatorship.
    — Geoff Edgers, Washington Post, 28 Nov. 2022
  • The show’s version of the tastemaking store and brand Supreme, for instance, is a vibe dictatorship called Latrine.
    — Nate Rogers, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2022
  • Twenty years later, the grip of the dictatorship remains tight.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 14 Aug. 2023
  • This would mark the first far-right surge in Spain's government since the dictatorship of Francisco Franco in the 1970s.
    — Justin Klawans, The Week, 23 July 2023
  • Her parents came to the U.S. in the 1960s, fleeing the communist dictatorship in Cuba.
    — Tara Kavaler, The Arizona Republic, 24 May 2023
  • In a world of adults, Celeste works through her changes while the country rocks between the dictatorship and the return to democracy.
    — Zac Ntim, Deadline, 25 Sep. 2024
  • The fishery itself is a parable of a dictatorship, Karamizade adds.
    — Ed Meza, Variety, 28 June 2023
  • Like the novel, the series will tell the history of a country that surrendered to dictatorship and the story of a man who was able to rise from the ashes time and again.
    — Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Apr. 2022
  • People are standing up to the dictatorship, losing their fear — or throwing caution to the wind.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 23 Nov. 2022
  • Like the novel, the series aims to tell the history of a country that surrendered to dictatorship and the story of a man who was able to rise from the ashes time and time again.
    — Gianmaria Tammaro, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Oct. 2022
  • Please, no more contrived hand-wringing and pearl-clutching about the Trump dictatorship.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 4 July 2024
  • The push to replace the current charter, which dates from the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, came in response to a wave of social unrest in 2019.
    — Valentina Fuentes, Bloomberg.com, 13 Dec. 2022
  • Like the novel, the series will tell the history of a country that surrendered to dictatorship and the story of a man who was able to rise from his ashes time and again.
    — Manori Ravindran, Variety, 5 Apr. 2022
  • The Valley of the Fallen, a Catholic basilica and paean to the fascist dictatorship, still overlooks the capital.
    — Nicholas Casey, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2022
  • But the coup was on the wane; after the end of the Cold War, the U.S. had stopped propping up quite so many military dictatorships, which are what tend to get militarily couped.
    — Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 1 July 2023
  • The last time a president declined to hand over the sash was in 1985, marking the end of the nation’s two-decade military dictatorship and the return of democracy.
    — Carla Bridi, ajc, 27 Dec. 2022
  • More than three decades after the fall of the Duvalier family dictatorship in 1986, gangs and guns continue to rule a volatile Haiti.
    — Jacqueline Charles and, Miami Herald, 1 Feb. 2024
  • In 1970, when Pelé led Brazil to victory in the World Cup, some elites in the country worried that the title would strengthen the brutal military dictatorship that ruled at the time.
    — Jack Nicas, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2022
  • The reason my older sister and I grew up in the States is because my parents fled a military dictatorship.
    — Wired Staff, WIRED, 30 Dec. 2023
  • The protests—the biggest and most violent since the end of the dictatorship—uncapped a well of simmering rage (and were brutally repressed by the Chilean national police).
    — Carolina A. Miranda, The Atlantic, 18 Oct. 2024
  • Why did the Biden administration not enforce the Trump-era sanctions against Iran and allowed about $100 billion to flow to that theocratic dictatorship.
    — CBS News, 29 Sep. 2024

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