misrule
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In April 1930, Gandhi concluded his pivotal salt march, breaking the British monopoly on salt production - a charged symbol of colonial misrule.
From BBC • Nov. 29, 2025
Political analysts said Zelenskiy needs to show Western partners and war-weary Ukrainians that he is serious about punishing misrule.
From Reuters • Jan. 26, 2023
“The pattern of many leaders is to be exalted in life and forgotten after death,” the archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, said in a eulogy that seemed to speak to a world plagued by misrule.
From New York Times • Sep. 19, 2022
The byproduct of Haiti’s institutional and security pandemonium is the death rattle of an economy that was already supine following years of misrule compounded by the pandemic.
From Washington Post • Jul. 7, 2022
Wars, intestine commotions, and misrule have too frequently prevented the local authorities from paying proper attention to measures of public salubrity.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)
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