misrule

He later resigned over accusations of corruption and misrule.

From BBC ● Nov. 15, 2024

Nigeria's election next week marks nearly a quarter century of democracy in Africa's most populous nation, which in previous decades had become a byword for coups and military misrule.

From Reuters ● Feb. 17, 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

Compare us not with that vain sot Whose misrule doomed old Babylon.

From By Trench and Trail in Song and Story by Angus MacKay

They also want an overhaul of a system of governance, saying successive administrations since independence from Britain in 1948 have misruled the country leading to economic and social crises.

From Seattle Times ● May 29, 2022

It is also remarkable that Miss Suu Kyi should sit down and scribble on banknotes with a man who misruled her country for so long.

From Economist ● Dec. 10, 2015

Far from being at the heart of a new Asia, sullen and misruled Central Asia languishes, for now, on the periphery.

From Economist ● Aug. 20, 2015

There will be no dramatic moment of closure on the era of Muhammad Hosni al-Sayyid Mubarak, the man who ruled and misruled Egypt for 30 years before being overthrown in early 2011.

From Newsweek ● Jun. 25, 2012

A group of picturesque domes marks the resting-place of some of the Seyyid and Lodi kings who in turn ruled or misruled the shrunken dominions which still owned allegiance to Delhi.

From India, Old and New by Sir Valentine Chirol