theocracy

But there are more pressing priorities for Iran's theocracy in this moment.

From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2026

Of these culturally Muslim, rural working classes often credited with wanting a theocracy, my mother says “they just wanted someone to give them their rights. The only thing that united them was basic human needs.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026

They’re poignant reminders of a time in L.A.’s Westwood “Tehrangeles” neighborhood when, in the years just after the 1979 Iranian revolution, immigrants here made music while their homeland roiled with ascendant theocracy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2025

We might use the term theocracy, although it's a little more complicated than that.

From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2024

Under a government in which theocracy, monarchy, patriarchal authority, and popular will, were singularly complicated and balanced, they traversed centuries of prosperity and glory.

From The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

The pope vowed that the church was not in the business of building theocracies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 18, 2026

They came here to escape war, political and religious persecution, lack of opportunity and corrupt systems lead by despotic strongmen or brutal theocracies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 2024

From theocracies to autocracies and, of course, some democracies too, the list is long.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2022

Believe it or not, many people who live in them don't want to live in theocracies.

From New York Times ● Apr. 6, 2018

They have appeared in autocracies, aristocracies, theocracies, democracies, and ochlocracies, all alike.

From What Social Classes Owe to Each Other by William Graham Sumner