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dictatorship

noun as in absolute rule

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In 2015, most European scholars — like most American liberals — could not have imagined a budding dictatorship led by a guy from “The Apprentice.”

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No monarchy or dictatorship for us; we were hostile to the idea of minting the portrait of a living leader for the very reason Caesar thought it was such a clever idea.

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Early Saturday morning, protesters packed the sand from Santa Monica to Laguna Beach, with signs that read “Bring back democracy,” “America is not a dictatorship,” and “Take the power back, say yes to 50.”

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Along with the kleptocratic Palestinian Authority dictatorship in Ramallah, this is who, and what, Group of 7 powers like Britain and France have decided to reward with an imprimatur of legitimate statehood.

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Farage was comparing his country - my country - with a brutal dictatorship that murders, imprisons and tortures opponents.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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