misrule

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

Lawmaker Yaroslav Yurchyshyn, first deputy head of the parliamentary committee on anti-corruption policy, said the shakeup partly sought to demonstrate that Kyiv saw cracking down on misrule as a key element of its Western integration.

From Reuters ● Jan. 25, 2023

Just ask Haitians in Miami who have long suffered under terror and misrule, or ask the Central Americans who fled civil wars.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 28, 2022

They accuse him and his powerful family, which includes several siblings who until recently held Cabinet positions, of precipitating the crisis through corruption and misrule.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 8, 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 Herbert Strang

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

Mr Kabila has misruled Congo for the past 17 years, after he took over from his father, who was shot by a bodyguard.

From Economist ● Jun. 1, 2017

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

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

It is natural to pause for a moment in this connection, and contrast the past with the present status of Spain, a country which conquered, possessed, and misruled Mexico for so long a period.

From Aztec Land by Maturin Murray Ballou