Sentence examples for dictatorial grip from inspiring English sources
Bashar al-Assad was slowly loosening his father's dictatorial grip.
So whereas Mr Greenberg retains a dictatorial grip on AIG's managers, Mr Bébéar increasingly leaves Mr de Castries unfettered.
He complains that Mr. Lopez, a Democrat, has a dictatorial grip over services in the run-down neighborhood.
The notion that further isolating Cuba will weaken Fidel Castro's dictatorial grip is belied by both history and America's approach to other totalitarian societies.
Is it an evil regime bent on keeping its dictatorial grip on a starving people and building nuclear bombs to deter meddling from the outside?
As a result, Kiyomori's grip became positively dictatorial, the period being known as the "Rokuhara regime" since he lived at Rokuhara in Kyōto.
In business, boards and leaders are coming to grips with the limitations of dictatorial and controlling leadership.
But he was often dictatorial in manner and could be vengeful.Even before his death, his grip had begun to loosen.
From outside Iraq, Iran and Syria are indirectly killing American soldiers, backing different sides of the civil war, and all but daring America's bogged-down military to launch a strike that the dictatorial leaderships of these two countries seem to think would strengthen their grip on power.
For the people of central and eastern Europe, May 1945 marked the moment they escaped Hitler's murderous grip, only to be imprisoned for half a century in a dictatorial communist empire after Stalin drew an iron curtain across Europe's heart.
