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 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
They accuse him and his powerful family, which includes several siblings who until recently held top government positions, of precipitating the crisis through corruption and misrule.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 7, 2022
In the twenty years' struggle that ensued, Spain paid in kind for more than three centuries of Colonial misrule.
From Swift and Sure by Strang, Herbert