Sentence examples for armed rule from inspiring English sources

However, the 47% polled by the Islamist FIS terrified the military: in January 1992 they cancelled a second round of elections, ousted President Chadli Bendjedid and instituted armed rule.

Instead, heavily armed warlords rule by brute force, a throwback to medieval times.

Most importantly, they had to be armed and rule directly to defend their wealth, often from other oligarchs.

And while we know that both pitchers and hitters bulked up in that era, the arms rule now.

The army has been struggling for weeks to establish control in a country frustrated by increasing poverty and decades of strong-arm rule.

Palestinians criticize the group for its strong-arm rule over Gaza and confrontational stance toward the outside world, which fueled an economic boycott by the West and rigid restrictions by Israel on the movement of goods and people.

Facing strong criticism from the United States and other alliance members over suspicions that he had personally approved the sale of sophisticated radars to Iraq, and over growing unrest about his strong-arm rule, NATO publicly refused to invite Mr. Kuchma to the summit meeting here.

Refugee and human rights activists argued that it was unsafe to return Sri Lankan asylum seekers to a country that, even after the end of the bitter civil war in 2009, remained under the strong-arm rule of President Rajapaksa and his family.

"I just didn't think that the church people would welcome me with open arms," Rule said before the service last week, a toothpick lazily hanging from his mouth.

This is usually referred to as the lever-arm rule, and can be derived from mass balance equations.

To thwart use of an adjacent-arm rule, we introduced barriers to the entrance of each arm on the fifth day to try and reduce stereotyped behaviour.