theocracy

But there are more pressing priorities for Iran's theocracy in this moment.

From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2026

They will test the theocracy to see whether the war has attenuated its strength.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026

But I also don’t think it’s going to be a theocracy anymore.

From Salon ● Jan. 17, 2026

In Westwood — the epicenter of the community, where the eponymous boulevard is lined by storefronts covered in Persian script — the widespread opposition to Iran’s hard-line theocracy is hard to miss.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 14, 2026

The last member of the triune conception of the Deity was considered, under the Brahminical theocracy, the living, vital, active, life-imparting agent in both the first and second births of men and the gods.

From The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

The pope vowed that the church was not in the business of building theocracies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 18, 2026

Oligarchs exist in authoritarian countries, they exist in theocracies, and they exist in modern democracies.

From Slate ● Nov. 15, 2024

They came here to escape war, political and religious persecution, lack of opportunity and corrupt systems lead by despotic strongmen or brutal theocracies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 2024

From theocracies to autocracies and, of course, some democracies too, the list is long.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2022

This we find in these great theocracies, where sufficient wealth enabled a class of leisured and honoured men to devote themselves to joint labour in observing nature and recording their observations.

From Progress and History by Francis Sydney Marvin