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

"I ask for time, valuable time to rescue the country from corruption and misrule."

From Reuters • Dec. 8, 2022

They accuse him and his powerful family that included several siblings holding top government positions of plunging the country into the crisis through corruption and misrule.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 3, 2022

But Filipinos seemed ready to embrace their democratic rights and move on from Marcos’s misrule.

From Washington Post • May 9, 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