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mob rule

noun as in reign of terror

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She said she was pleased about the latest court decision as "for the people in the hotel it gives them consistency, but it's made me very nervous because I think there will be trouble... but I'm really pleased mob rule hasn't been allowed to take over".

From BBC

The self-policing of social media is real and often effective, but it is far too arbitrary to act as a substitute for media regulation and mob rule is not something we should embrace.

The Duke, a philanderer, has far less interest in mob rule than in chasing skirts.

Opera unveiled a violent, politically disquieting production in which a tortured jester faces mob rule.

But its inevitable outcome, he argues, is mob rule, bitter factional division, the debasement of civic culture and finally some version of Caesarism.

From Salon

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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