Sentence examples for dictatorial figure from inspiring English sources

But the toys' uprising against a dictatorial figure has a clear political message.

But the college is once again in turmoil with dissident and dismissed faculty members casting Dr. Coleman as a dictatorial figure who crushes any criticism.

The older Passarella had captained the 1978 World Cup winning team and was an uncompromising dictatorial figure who despised Maradona's disregard for team rules.

In Britain, where a prime minister with a decent Commons majority has the power to act – and is expected to act – as a decisive, sometimes almost dictatorial figure, U-turns are usually seen by journalists and politicians as damaging humiliations.

In a perpetual power struggle with his parents and shaped by the political tumult around him, the boy's troubling behaviour in these early years hints at the dictatorial figure he will later become.

In the twentieth-century, Paraguay was dominated by the dictatorial figure of Alfredo Stroessner, who ruled the country for thirty-five years (from 1954 to 1989) and was in power at the time at which Roa Bastos was writing I, the Supreme.

Art historians interpret the popes as depictions of dictatorial figures, but also as evocations of Bacon's father, a retired army major with whom the artist had a difficult relationship.

There are moments in history that call for a certain type of figure and I think our times call for the type of more right-wing dictatorial figures.

Xi is a strong, authoritarian, quasi-dictatorial figure – the sort of leader, like Putin, that Trump appears to admire.

Opponents of Mr. Lukashenko, always a mercurial figure, say that his modest steps to ease election rules since 2010 are nothing more than window dressing, and that the country, its eccentric leader and his dictatorial form of government remain dismally backward and an embarrassment for Europe.

The world is becoming more right-wing orientated and it seems that people are in some sort of need for strong or dictatorial political figures.